More "privacy"

X will hide its users’ “likes” in future

In future, Elon Musk's short messaging service X will no longer show publicly who has "liked" which post. Only the author of a post will continue to see which users liked it, the service announced on Tuesday. Users will also still be able to see their own "likes". X justified the change with better protection of privacy.

X justified the change with better protection of privacy. The service, which was bought by tech billionaire Musk for around 44 billion dollars (currently around 41 billion euros), officially allowed pornographic content and nudity on the platform last week with a rule change.

On Twitter, "likes" were always openly visible. This had already caused problems for some users when they clicked on the heart symbol under problematic or inappropriate tweets. At the same time, the function was often simply used as a bookmark.

Following the announcement, some users criticized the fact that less transparency in the "likes" could conceal automated bots trying to make posts on the platform more prominent.