Facebook is thinking about hiding like counts, too

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook might start testing whether it should begin hiding public-facing like counts.
App researcher Jane Manchun Wong found code inside Facebook’s Android app that hides the exact amount of likes on a post from everyone but the original poster. Other users will just see a few reaction emoji and a note that it was liked by “[a friend] and others” instead of a specific number of other people.
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