Instagram started hiding like counts from the posts in July because your followers to “focus on the posts and videos you share, not on how many likes they get.” After receiving positive feedback from Instagram, Facebook also starts hiding like counts from your posts.
About this information, the backend-engineering expert helps us who dotted the change in the source code of Face book’s android app. Work of facebook like hiding feature similar to Instagram. Just the author of the post can able to see the total likes, although others can only see the mutual friends who liked the post.
Wong said that the Like/Reaction count on the comments is to be seen because the feature is under development. Facebook has confirmed about removing like counts from posts but hasn’t shared any information about this work.