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by o10449366 2627 days ago
I don't know how you came to these conclusions, but they're fundamentally incorrect. Video has been one of Facebook's fastest growing advertisement categories in recent years, particularly after their acquisition of Instagram. They absolutely have a business purpose for understanding video and if they didn't they wouldn't have invested so heavily in it with features like livestreaming. Furthermore, I don't know where the idea of government regulation as an incentive came from in this thread, but it's illogical and ridiculous. Facebook doesn't need an incentive to try and prevent objectionable content like mass murders from appearing on their platform because they're well-aware of the damage they can cause their brand. That's incentive enough.