Elon removing headlines is a masterstroke

The headlines are written by a separate team inside news orgs, you can guess why. Every last honest journalist grumbles about this

Concurrently, no one reads the fine print anymore. Only headlines

The death of headlines as the primary vehicle for narrative is great

Unless they also remove preview images, people will start making those more and more outrageous to increase clicks (see YouTube thumbnails).

It’s like fighting fraud, the goal is to increase frictions, not achieve the impossible goal of zero fraud