Instagram is offering its users the option to hide the number of likes they receive on posts on the app. The aim is to “depressurize people’s experience” on the platform, the social media giant said. Users with the feature enabled will now see the username of a follower who has liked the post, “and others”, instead of a number. The tool has been tested in several countries since 2019, but it is now being rolled out globally. “This has taken longer than I had hoped, but I am pretty excited about… giving people more control over the experience,” Instagram's boss Adam Mosseri told the BBC.

Amazon temporarily halted construction of a new US warehouse again after an eighth noose was found at the site. Construction stopped at the Windsor, Connecticut, warehouse for the second time within a week on Wednesday. Amazon said the site has since re-opened and it is working with officials on the investigation. The company has also offered a $100,000 (£70,589) reward for information on the nooses, the first of which was discovered at the end of April. Windsor Police Chief Donald Melanson said at a press conference that workers had found a red rope "with a noose tied at the end" on the fifth floor of the site.

WhatsApp is suing the Indian government over new digital rules that will force the messaging service to violate privacy protections. It said rules that require tracing the origin of chats were the equivalent of keeping a "fingerprint of every single message sent on the service". In February, the government introduced new guidelines to regulate content on social media and streaming platforms. India is WhatsApp's largest market with about 400 million users. The government's rules for social media said that messaging platforms would need to make provisions for the "identification of the first originator of the information". Whatsapp filed a plea in the high court in Delhi asking it to declare the new rule unconstitutional.