Twitter is planning to remove the ability to “like” tweets in a radical move that aims to improve the quality of debate on the social network, UK news outlet The Telegraph (paywalled) reported Monday, citing CEO Jack Dorsey’s comments at a recent company event. From the report: Founder Jack Dorsey last week admitted at a Twitter event that he was not a fan of the heart-shaped button and that it would be getting rid of it “soon.” The feature was introduced in 2015 to replace “favourites,” a star-shaped button that allowed people to bookmark tweets to read later.

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