How Facebook's Freebooting Inflated Its Video View Counts

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell · Commentary · YouTube title: How Facebook is Stealing Billions of Views

Why it's here

HN cites it to explain freebooting, Facebook's inflated view metrics and why Content ID matters for small creators.

What it covers

Kurzgesagt argues that Facebook's claimed 8 billion daily video views are inflated by freebooting, meaning re-uploads of creators' videos. It describes how this harms independent creators.