https://www.vox.com/2018/10/29/18037880/twitter-may-remove-like-button

Contention over the “like” button reveals deeper tensions among Twitter and its user base.

As Twitter continues to grapple with an ongoing ideological crisis, the company has repeatedly come in for criticism that it fails to take tonally appropriate action in response to problems on its platform. This week, another round of such criticism has greeted a report that the company may be removing the popular “like” button from tweets at some point in the future.