Facebook confirms it's considering hiding ‘Like’ counts from users

Earlier in the year, Instagram got rid of visible like counts in a selected number of test countries, including Australia. Now Facebook might follow.

Facebook confirms that it's considering hiding 'Like' counts from users. Source: The Feed

It was supposed to be the end of Influencer culture when, back in May, Instagram removed public visibility of ‘likes’ so that “followers focus on the photos and videos shared, not how many likes they get.”

This week, app researcher Jane Manchun Wong spotted code in Facebook’s Android app that hid the exact number of likes from everyone except the original poster:

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