[NLPaep]

The article is clear: This is hiding which posts you’ve liked from other users.

Not the like counts in posts.

[synthpop]

I wasn't suggesting the like count would be hidden, but the ability to click into the like count underneath the post to see the list of users that liked the tweet. The article isn't entirely clear on if this feature would be disabled once user likes get privated, but I don't see why they would make the effort to do this in the first place if one could still see the users that liked an 'edgy' tweet anyway.