The friend “recommending / to recommend” the video

Hello, everyone,

An interesting phenomenon that arose from social media is the concept of social proof. It’s easier for a person to accept new values or ideas when they see that others have already done so. . . . For example, a video about some issue may be controversial on its own but more credible if it got thousands of likes. When expressing feelings of liking to friends, you can express them using nonverbal cues such as facial expressions. If a friend recommends the video to you, in many cases, the credibility of the idea it presents will rise in direct proportion to the trust you place in the friend recommending the video. This is the power of social media and part of the reason why videos or “posts” can become “viral.”

*source; partly quoted from a test for Korean high school students

Please advise me if above ‘recommending’ is interchangeable with ‘to recommend’ or not. At moment, I think it’s not possible, since the participle ‘–ing’ denotes mainly ongoing action and to infinitive mainly does future’s one as follows;

1. the friend recommending the video = the friend who recommends the video

2. the friend to recommend the video = the friend who will recommend the video

Would hope to hear your valuable opinions.