Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, formerly Twitter, is set to roll out a new feature that will allow users to keep their likes private. This move is aimed at protecting users from potential backlash for their online activity.
What Happened: On Tuesday, it was reported that X would be introducing private likes, a feature that will hide users’ likes by default. This feature is already available to X’s Premium subscribers.
Musk later took to the platform and confirmed the report highlighting the importance of allowing users to express their preferences without fear of criticism.
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Important to allow people to like posts without getting attacked for doing so! https://t.co/3O1bG7wIGe — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 11, 2024
Last month, Haofei Wang, X’s director of engineering, spoke about ...