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 everything is fine, while damaging independent creators in the process. How does this work?

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[kurzgesagt]

Since a lot of people asked: Sharing a video on Facebook is GOOD for the creator if you use a linke to the original Voutube video. In that regard Facebook is a good thing and actually important for us. The bad thing is when people/sites upload videos into the Facebook video player. Sorry that we did not make this clearer. So feel free to share this video on Facebook.

[smartereveryday]

Guys, thank you for making this... and thanks again for being such a good friend to Smarter Every Day.

[ThatMumboJumbo]

In before this video gets stolen, posted on Facebook and gets viewed millions of views.

[Jaynification]

"Facebook wants to change" - Time has determined that this was a lie.

[paraphidd]

You know you’ve screwed up when Kurzgesagt calls you out

[MrSlothstronaut]

if facebook steals this video, thats a whole new low.

[JoyFerret]

How to spot a stolen video in Facebook:
1.- Video starts or ends abruptly, with no credits nor intro sequence
2.- Video has a watermark from the facebook page that stole it, and doesn't mention any source in the description
3.- Has two rectangles, one at the bottom and one at the top, with text such as "OMG you wont believe this..."
4.- Overuse of emojis such as "😂", "😮", etc.

[keithwinget]

Is YouTube NOT suing Facebook over this? It's lost revenue for them too!

[vaprwse]

If a voice actor THAT calm gets pissed, you know you're screwed.

[filthyfrog]

i like how the narrator sounds slightly pissed off

[maxbuster]

This is one of the billion reasons I don't use Facebook.

[snxw]

Actually, we all should just boycott facebook until they change. They can't survive for very long if no one uses their services.

[YMS]

I actually ranted about this on facebook a couple weeks ago after seeing how many people on my timeline routinely share stolen videos from shitty freebooting pages. Much of the problem is people's lack of awareness, so this is a much-needed video. Thank you so much for the shout-out at 2:39!

[silleenevoldsen]

This got recommended to me after 5 years, and I only clicked it because it is so important and I want everyone to watch it.

[TomSka]

Someone tried to share this video with me in a private message on Facebook... However the message was flagged as "harmful content" and deleted. This is INSANE.

[zuperjeesus]

This, unfortunately, needs to be shared all the hell over facebook!

[badzombies]

I went from black hole energy to Facebook stealing stuff.


Man, I love life.

[CarsSimplified]

Almost three years old, but definitely still relevant.

[davidjavier]

for some reason, I can feel the anger through the narrator’s soothing voice