Facebook videos on mobile opening up articles

socialbutterfly1

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I've spotted some very weird functionality on Facebook that I've been unable to replicate.

The following FB page: https://www.facebook.com/streetfx/ has a video pinned to it's wall with the text overlay "HER FIRST TIME IN A GTR".

If you view this from the iPhone Facebook app, when you click on the video (to fullscreen it with sound), it opens up an external article. Some pages are even adding a fake watermark "click for sound" to trick you into clicking the video, which then opens an article.

How is this possible?
 
So you're suggesting that all these pages are paying ads to do this? Unlikely to be profitable if that is the case?
 
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