Enterprise mogul Elon Musk has confirmed that the X platform will disguise “likes” from public view to guard consumer privateness and shield free speech.
X is rolling out non-public likes as quickly as as we speak, in line with a supply on the firm. Which means what customers like on the platform shall be hidden by default, which is already an choice for X’s Premium subscribers.
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A number of weeks in the past, X’s director of engineering, Haofei Wang, mentioned the upcoming change is supposed to guard customers’ public picture — as a result of “many individuals really feel discouraged” to love “edgy” content material. The Likes tab on consumer profiles shall be gone. Customers will nonetheless be capable of see who favored their posts and the like rely for all posts, however they won’t see the individuals who favored another person’s publish, in accordance to X senior software program engineer Enrique Barragan. (He additionally hinted on the launch as we speak in a publish.)
Musk confirmed the change on his personal X feed, stating that it was “necessary to permit folks to love posts with out getting attacked for doing so.”
Necessary to permit folks to love posts with out getting attacked for doing so! https://t.co/3O1bG7wIGe
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 11, 2024
The transfer could assist defeat cancel tradition, with many conservatives dropping their jobs, positions of reputations over content material that they’d “favored.”
Since taking up the platform in October 2022, Musk has rolled out a variety of recent options together with advert income payouts for creators, subscriptions and account verificiation.
Most significantly, he has ended the earlier censorship regime below former CEOs Jack Dorsey and Parag Agrawal and reinstated hundreds of beforehand banned accounts, together with that of The Gateway Pundit and President Donald Trump.
