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Those Facebook Live Videos From Space That Are Going Viral Are Fake, NASA Confirms (mashable.com)
Earlier this morning, a Facebook Live video allegedly showed a live feed of the International Space Station (ISS). The video has gone viral on the internet, with more than 17 million views, two million likes, and 400,000 shares. The only problem: that video feed is fake, a NASA spokesperson told Mashable. It said, "there is no spacewalk being conducted outside the International Space Station today." The video was shared by UNILAD, Viral USA, and Interstinate Facebook pages. From the report: NASA announces it whenever a spacewalk is expected to occur on the station, and they don't have anything about a spacewalk on their schedule for today. If the livestreams are showing spacewalks, that's a big hint they're fake.Good thing Facebook insists it isn't a media company.
Facebook's content is driven by the end user. Click on any political story on the side and read the comments by those end users.
Facebook is the equivalent of 'forwards from grandma' or 'that dumb cousin you have that insists the moon landing is fake'. A story get shared by someone to their own echo chamber, re shared and pretty soon you have fake stories reaching a lot of people.
...The only problem: that video feed is fake,...
Like much of what is presented on Facebook as being "the truth."
Facebook is just as accurate as every other "Media company".
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Facebook, a program that people run on a server that they don't control, has users that share photos/video, that they themselves didn't take, of an event that they didn't partake in (didn't even happen on the planet that they live on), to other users that they don't know. And from this real fake event, the news of which spreads to other websites, and here we are discussing it as 'the funny that facebook did'.
No, my friends, facebook didn't do this alone, it took a lot of today's common ridiculousness in order to get this ball moving. If this 'need for something to share' doesn't alert anyone to the degraded state of human interaction, then nothing will.
Yes, I'm saying that people should go out in space, and not just sit on facebook.
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This is just another experiment to show that people believe anything that is presented to them. Nobody fact checks anything. What ever the TV says is true. We are doomed.
Watched this as a kid. Now it's closer to true than ever.
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I can't watch the video for a variety of reasons so please entertain my question.
Why would someone post a fake space walk? Because space walks are usually very droll.
Was the space walk a backdrop for a story-drama-horror-prank, or was the walk itself really the whole content? Sounds like a chance for someone to test their 3D and Compositing skills by testing against an unwitting mass audience? I don't get the motivation, what is the space-walk-story? thx
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That pulls a stunt like this........makes you want to strangle them...
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The video being streamed is clearly not fake, and clearly IS from a spacewalk outside the ISS.
It is just not happening TODAY. Can we please be at least a tiny bit accurate in our reporting, Slashdot?
I believe historians and archaeologists in the future may have difficultly telling the difference between fact and fiction of the space program. Whether it be Roswell or Area 51 tales, and today occasionally someone will say something that NASA did this and that but that event was from a movie. Another example are youtube videos of certain airplanes doing amazing things but yet it is really CGI.
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I was sent this last week. There are even conspiracy theorists who've made videos about things they've seen in this 'live' video feed 'before NASA could cut the feed'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGPuEDyAsU8.
It has about 3000 people watching it right now.
Your statement assumes that there will be 1) humans or 2) some type of artificial intelligence or 3) aliens in the future that might care about "human" history at all.
I'm skeptical of all of those ideas.
Another NASA cover up.
I wonder what they're up to this time.
they don't think there's a space walk, but how do they know for sure?
And the rest of nasa
NASA would know, having a bit of experience in producing fake video themselves.
I'm surprised it isn't mentioned, however, that NASA TV *does* offer a live feed of cameras showing the Earth and Station from ISS. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/iss_ustream.html (If it is dark the station is most likely passing on the Night side of Earth in it's orbit.)
From http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/27/13433358/live-spacewalk-streams-viral-fakes
'When asked by BBC News why it had uploaded old footage as a live stream, UNILAD said it was just to "test the capabilities of what the 'live broadcast' feature on Facebook could really do." A test that also racked up millions of views and shares for the UNILAD Facebook page.'
And what is UNILAD for those of us across the pond? "University Lad" is a take on bro media. Unilad.co.uk, a humor-focused media company for British college students (tagline: “Procrastinate better”).
AAaaaaan there we have it. Sensationalism, and viewer hits. "any press is good press, even bad press" as the saying goes.