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Likes on X will be private starting this week

Soon, you're likes will no longer be visible to everyone on X

X has justified the decision to make likes private as it believes the current system was “incentivizing the wrong behavior”. According to X engineer Wang Haofei, they noticed that many people felt discouraged from liking posts that might be deemed “edgy” for fear of retaliation from trolls, or to protect their public image. Those who subscribed to X Premium were able to hide their likes from public view, but it seems this perk wasn’t worth paywalling and is now available for everyone.

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