Facebook says its long term goal is to provide a comprehensive video management system for publishers, vital if it is to position itself as an alternative to YouTube and court advertisers’ budgets.
However, content creators have complained of piracy. Most recently, American vlogger Hank Green accused Facebook of “lying, cheating and stealing”, saying it is purposefully slow to remove “freebooted” content, which is taken from YouTube and then uploaded natively to Facebook without the original creator’s permission. Facebook’s algorithm favours that native content over YouTube embedded videos.
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Source: The Drum
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