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Joseph Foley

Facebook wants to Reel in Gen Z with TikTok-inspired video player

Images of the new Facebook video player.

There's been plenty of talk about how Instagram taken ideas from TikTok in recent years in a bid to appeal to Gen Z. But it seems Facebook's also taking cues from the rival social media platform.

While there are reports that there might be a TikTok photo app in the works, making the TikTok the new old Instagram, Meta's Facebook is updating its mobile video player to switch all video to the vertical format used by TikTok and Instagram Reels by default. And it looks like we can expect to see a lot more video content too.

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