X, the social platform previously often known as Twitter, is seemingly blocking hyperlinks to Sign, the encrypted messaging platform, in accordance with journalist Matt Binder and different firsthand accounts.

Binder wrote in his Disruptionist newsletter Sunday that hyperlinks to Signal.me, a website that gives a option to join on to Sign customers, are blocked on public posts, direct messages, and profile pages. Error messages—together with “Message not despatched,” “One thing went unsuitable,” and profiles tagged as “thought-about malware” or “probably dangerous”—give no direct suggestion of a block. However posts on X, reporting at The Verge, and different sources recommend that Sign.me hyperlinks are broadly banned.

Sign.me hyperlinks that have been already posted on X previous to the current change now present a “Warning: this hyperlink could also be unsafe” interstitial web page quite than opening the hyperlink immediately. Hyperlinks to Sign handles and the Signal homepage are nonetheless performing on X.

Binder, a former Mashable reporter who was once blocked by X (then Twitter) for reporting on proprietor Elon Musk and accounts associated to his personal jet journey, credited the primary experiences to an X post by security research firm Mysk.