How Facebook is Stealing Billions of Views
Facebook just announced 8 billion video views per day. This number is made out of lies, cheating and worst of all: theft. All of this is wildly known but the media giant Facebook is pretending...
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A few days ago Facebook proudly announced thatthey'd achieved eight billion video views a day.That's really impressive,until you learnthat in the first quarter of 2015,seven hundred and twenty-fiveof the 1000 most-viewed videos on Facebookwere stolen,amassing a total of 17 billion views.Sites and content aggregatorssteal videos from YouTubeto go viral on Facebook.These videos go viralbecause Facebook is cheating.They rig their algorithms so that videos uploaded into their playerare preferred to YouTube links,because usersshould be kept as long as possible on the siteso Facebook can show themas many ads as possible.This is after all their business model.But it also cheats when it comes to views.A view is counted after three secondseven if the video is ...
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A few days ago Facebook proudly announced thatthey'd achieved eight billion video views a day.That's really impressive,until you learnthat in the first quarter of 2015,seven hundred and twenty-fiveof the 1000 most-viewed videos on Facebookwere stolen,amassing a total of 17 billion views.Sites and content aggregatorssteal videos from YouTubeto go viral on Facebook.These videos go viralbecause Facebook is cheating.They rig their algorithms so that videos uploaded into their playerare preferred to YouTube links,because usersshould be kept as long as possible on the siteso Facebook can show themas many ads as possible.This is after all their business model.But it also cheats when it comes to views.A view is counted after three secondseven if the video is ...
