Share it Instagram freaked a whole lot of users out this week when it suddenly - and unintentionally - expanded its test of hidden post like counts to a lot more users. We've been testing a new experience to hide likes on Feed posts. We unintentionally added more people to the test today, which was a bug — we’re fixing this issue and restoring like counts to those people as soon as possible.— Instagram Comms (@InstagramComms) March 3, 2021 Instagram has been testing hidden Like counts for some time, and while it has provided some insight into the results it's seen from its experiments, it clearly doesn't yet have all the data that it needs in order to make a call on the viability of the option.