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🗓️ 27 November 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
0:04.6 | Hello, I'm Tina Dehealy and this is Beyond Today where we ask one big question about one big story. |
0:14.0 | Today, why is Instagram hiding likes? |
0:27.0 | I love the Beyond Today inbox. As I say I check it regularly and this story came |
0:38.9 | from Tatiana. She emailed us wanting to know why she could no longer see her likes on |
0:44.4 | Instagram after updating her phone. It's something we've all been talking about in |
0:48.8 | the Beyond Today office. Do we think this is a good thing and that it will ultimately improve our mental health? |
0:55.0 | We're going to hear from a fashion influencer who makes her living from likes and Instagram. |
1:01.0 | We think that it's all about likes but actually a lot of it's about hate. and more from her later but first I'm Sophia Smith Gala I'm a visual journalist |
1:18.6 | for the BBC World Service which involves running the World Service |
1:21.8 | Instagram account, |
1:23.0 | and I live on the third floor. |
1:24.5 | Sophia came into the Beyond Today studio |
1:27.2 | on the fifth floor to explain what's happening with our likes. |
1:31.6 | Instagram is trialing the removal of likes on other people's photos. |
1:38.0 | That means that you can still see the likes on your photographs, but in terms of other users when you're scrolling |
1:44.5 | through your feed you may be one of the people in the UK who's been picked to |
1:49.8 | be part of the test where you can no longer see other people's like counts. |
1:53.6 | Okay so I can still see my likes but I won't be able to see how many people have liked the |
1:59.6 | posts of the people that I follow or anyone's account. If I go into my Instagram now, let's have a look, |
2:07.0 | yeah I can see how many likes that got. So it says like, |
2:10.5 | Robbie and 387 other people. So I'd be able to see that anyway so let's go to the people I'm following |
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