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X is about to start hiding all likes


Soon, everyone a user likes on X will be hidden by default.

By Kylie Robison, a senior AI reporter working with The Verge's policy and tech teams. A few weeks ago, the company’s director of engineering, Haofei Wang, said the change is meant to protect users’ public image — because “many people feel discouraged” to like “edgy” content. Late last year, X owner Elon Musk told the platform’s engineers that he wanted to get rid of the tweet action buttons altogether and instead place a stronger emphasis on post views (also called “impressions”).

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