NBC Pulls Facebook Post After Sneaking in an Ad for Subway

Tries to work around social network's video rules

As Facebook looks to turn itself into a bona fide video platform, it's tightening its rules on what publishers can and cannot post. Clips with ads not sold by Facebook are not allowed, something NBC learned the hard way today.

Yesterday afternoon, NBC posted a three-minute video from the latest episode of Saturday Night Live using Facebook's native video player. The network tweeted the same clip and posted it on NBC.com.

But, there was a snag with the Facebook post.

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