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Some website links included in the X posts of politicians, government agencies and companies were redirected this weekend with unrelated videos, images and websites.

Links dating as far back as 2009 from URL-shortening service Bitly were affected, and only corporate and political X accounts appear to have been targeted, with President Donald Trump’s personal account seemingly hit the hardest. At least a dozen of Trump’s posts on X now direct to various inappropriate and unrelated sites.