X says top accounts steal videos from other users as it announces new video tools

Vector collage of the X logo.

Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, said in a post on Monday that “[m]any videos from top accounts are simply stolen from other users, sometimes 5 years after they originally went viral,” while noting that videos on the platform “make up close to half the impressions on X.” According to Bier, X is launching a new in-app video editor and recorder to address this “recycled content,” so that “some videos on X can finally be original content that doesn’t exist on other platforms.”

As previously reported by TechCrunch, the new video tools are available now on X’s iOS app, and include an option for overlaying captions in multiple languages and a “g …

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