X Creates A More Privacy Like Feature, Users Are Worried About Being A Fraud Field

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JAKARTA - To maintain the privacy of its users, platform X recently announced that the content or posts we love (Like) will no longer be public.

"This week we make Likes personal for everyone to better protect your privacy," the company wrote in its post on the X account @XEng on Wednesday, June 12.

The Elon Musk-owned company initially launched the ability to hide Like tabs for X Premium subscribers only, but now they are launching for everyone.

Ah, so we won't be able to tell if the post engagement is genuine or simply boosted by bots! NICE WORK .....

— Oussama Mabrouki (@mabroukioussama) June 11, 2024

Ah, so we won't be able to tell if the post engagement is genuine or simply boosted by bots! NICE WORK...

With this change, users will no longer be able to see who likes other people's posts. However, they can still see who likes their tweets, along with the number of likes and other metrics for their own posts.

This new capability looks similar to themark function. Where others will not be able to see who stores certain posts.

X's decision to turn Likes into privacy also seems to eliminate one of the reasons users subscribe to premiums.

Some accounts oppose this update. They think that hiding accounts that like a post can be used to commit fraud.

"Ah, so we won't be able to confirm whether the post was genuine or just pushed by a bot!" write the account @mabroukioussama.

it's to allow fraud. that's why you're doing this. Your fake views that are muted are bots that always generate magnetic ratios can't manipulate 'like' and'retweet' in reverse, therefore why are you introducing this," wrote the account @@_Escapekey_.