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The Facebook Like buttons on websites that aren’t Facebook are going away.

So are external comment buttons, according to Meta. They’ll be discontinued on February 10th, 2026, and starting on that date, they’ll render instead as a 0 x 0 pixel to prevent causing errors.

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