YouTube star attacks ‘theft, lies and Facebook video’

Vlogbrothers' Hank Green wants social network to rethink the way it counts views, and crack down on 'freebooted' videos ripped from YouTube

Facebook has ambitions to compete with YouTube in the online video world, but one of the latter's prominent creators has criticised the social network's strategy.

Hank Green is one half of the Vlogbrothers duo, whose YouTube channel has more than 552m views and 2.6 million subscribers. He also co-founded the influential VidCon conference.