Facebook loves video. Facebook also loves money. Video is bringing in money, also.
But Facebook is starting to realize—finally—that not every video's worth hosting. No matter how many views it gets.
On Monday, a day after a video went viral on Facebook for showing a murder in Cleveland, Facebook issued an apology about its own failure in reporting the crime.
The incident was the most recent in a series of videos of violent crimes (as well as one particularly brutal example of suicide) that have ended up either livestreamed or uploaded to Facebook.
"We disabled the suspect’s account within 23 minutes of receiving the first report about the murder video, and two hours after receiving a report of any kind. But we know we need to do better," Juston Osofsky, Facebook's VP of Global Operations, wrote in a blog post. Read more...
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