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Facebook’s new full-screen video player looks a lot like TikTok


The new player fully embraces vertical videos.

Khalid has covered tech, surveillance policy, consumer gadgets, and online communities for more than a decade. Facebook is launching an updated mobile video player that will bring the vertical look made ubiquitous by TikTok and Reels to all of the platform’s video content, Meta announced in a blog post on Wednesday. The new video player will debut on iOS and Android in the US and Canada in the next few weeks before launching globally in the months to follow.

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