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.

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Oh the irony

[BringsApples]

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.