Facebook may be bringing group video viewing to Messenger


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  • Tuesday, 20 Nov 2018

David Marcus, vice president of messaging products for Facebook Inc., speaks during the F8 Developers Conference in San Jose, California, U.S., on Tuesday, May 1, 2018. Zuckerberg said that he learned, while testifying in front of Congress last month, that he didn't have clear enough answers to questions about data and Facebook should offer users this kind of option to control their information. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

LOS ANGELES: Facebook has been testing social video co-viewing in Messenger, according to code snippets discovered by Twitter user Ananay Arora. 

The feature seems to be similar to Facebook’s Watch Party, which launched globally this summer. 

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