Facebook Inflated Video Viewing Stats For Two Years (cnet.com)

Posted by msmash on Friday September 23, 2016 @02:40AM from the fake-it-if-you-can't-make-it dept.

Facebook has admitted inflating the average time people spend watching videos for two years by failing to count people who watched for less than three seconds. CNET reports: The metric was artificially inflated because it only counted videos as viewed if they had been seen for three or more seconds, not taking into account shorter views, the company revealed several weeks ago in a post on its advertiser help center web page. Facebook has been putting a greater emphasis on video in recent years, particularly live video. In March, Facebook began giving anyone with a phone and internet connection an easy way to broadcast live video to the 1.7 billion people who use its service every day.

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Facebook lies: shocker by HBI · 2016-09-23 02:46 · Score: 2, Interesting

They've lied about their news feed provenance, they've lied about censorship, now they lie about video statistics. The whole site is a cesspool. The day is rare when someone isn't asking me about a factually inaccurate FB ad trying to scam old people.
Taking it offline would benefit all of humanity. It's as bad as e-mail at this point.

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