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The Facebook Hackers Gaming Its Video Algorithm
‘F*cking Floating Things’
It turns out that videos that look like pictures, and play with no one really watching, are a big business—at least for now.
Taylor Lorenz
Published
Feb. 14 2018
5:19AM EST
Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast
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