I am really interested in the technical details. I think we have yet to see a working (and practical) approach to this.
If true I believe that this would actually be an important improvement. This removes some plausible deniability regarding malware and other abuse; Facebook (or whomever else adopts this scheme) must guard more carefully against abuse when the content is coming from their own domains, as opposed to some third party.
I expect them still manage to hide behind "common carrier" arguments.