X (formerly Twitter) has made a change this week to make likes mostly private, in a move to 'better protect your privacy.' This is to avoid PR issues for public figures who have liked certain posts.
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Facebook is testing the removal of the likes/reactions count on its Android app, similar to that of Instagram. The change was spotted in the Android app's code and is still being prototyped.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, in a company event last week, announced that he intends to get rid of the 'like' button for tweets. It isn't clear when this move will actually be made, however.
Scientists have found that about one million Facebook accounts are enrolled in "collusion networks" run by spammers, which generated as many as 100 million fake "likes" between 2015 and 2016.
Released a few days ago, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare's YouTube trailer has exceeded one million dislikes making it the eighth most disliked video ahead of Justin Bieber's "Boyfriend" and others.
Facebook comment spam can be annoying to encounter, but a group of Italian researchers believe it to be worth up to $200 million annually, with some spammers setting up pages to earn even more money.
Facebook is looking for new, and more inventive, ways of monetizing their 1 billion users, but they could come at the cost of the advertisers who provide Facebook with the majority of their money.
This is absolutely the best invention of all time! (Of all time!). It's a vest, that when you get a "like" through Facebook, inflates to give you a hug void of all human contact and real emotion.
Facebook has announced that it has stepped up its automated efforts in enforcing its Terms of Service by removing any "Likes" on pages that it claims violate its terms.
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