Facebook's data for video watch times includes auto plays that people don't actually watch as long as it played for like 3 seconds or more.
Your fluff piece is based on heavily fluffed data @mashable.
Plus, Facebook videos are all just clips of videos stolen from YouTube 
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That is the point. No one is making content for fb, they just pirate from elsewhere. Also advertisers will loose money, because there are so many fake accounts on fb.
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Facebook can't replace YouTube
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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