These are local, non-live videos posted by reporters. We want to post them to Facebook first because we have found that Facebook's algorithm heavily favors videos hosted on Facebook to externally hosted videos. 

Hi Christine. Much like with comments and with articles in general, being able to cross-post with Facebook would mean we would not have to upload the same video in more than one place, and keep certain things like views for the same video all together, rather than having half on the Facebook version, and half on TownNews-hosted/YouTube version of the video.