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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".
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
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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What if an astronaut goes for a rogue walk? Would NASA deny it simply because it's "not on the schedule"?
Hell no, 1/3 of my mod-score is from poking fun of them.
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Exactly. What's fake is it being live, which is clearly done as clickbait. But the video is real (taken by astronaut Terry Virts using a GoPro during US EVA #30 on February 25, 2015) and absolutely incredible, well worth a watch. Just don't do it from pages saying it's live: let's not give them watches.