Those Facebook Live Videos From Space That Are Going Viral Are Fake, NASA Confirms

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.

YOU MEAN WILDCAT ISN'T ON TEH SPOKE?

[Anonymous Coward]

 

PirateBay isn't a media company either.

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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 Facebook video is fake

[QuietLagoon]

...The only problem: that video feed is fake,...

Like much of what is presented on Facebook as being "the truth."

In other words

[SuperKendall]

Facebook is just as accurate as every other "Media company".

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[Anonymous Coward]

That's a lie.

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[bev_tech_rob]

Facebook is just as accurate as every other "Media company".

Please hush and put your tin foil hat back on....

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[lgw]

Eh, while most media companies have almost no editorial vetting of stories (beyond "do they fit the narrative"), that's still a little bit better than Facebook's word-of-mouth. Stories in no way related to politics are somewhat more accurate than random guessing, unlike FB and clickbait sites. Oh, and the sports page remains a bastion of accurate reporting and separation of op-ed form factual. Funny how that works.

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.

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[Anonymous Coward]

Sounds a lot like this website.

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[networkBoy]

certain folks without a suit even...

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Honest question

[Anonymous Coward]

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

UNILAD

[OverlordQ]

The king of shitposting

There is always some a**hole...

[bev_tech_rob]

That pulls a stunt like this........makes you want to strangle them...

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[Tablizer]

TFA: [NASA says] 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.

not fake...just not happening TODAY.

What if an astronaut goes for a rogue walk? Would NASA deny it simply because it's "not on the schedule"?

Can we please be at least a tiny bit accurate in our reporting, Slashdot?

Hell no, 1/3 of my mod-score is from poking fun of them.

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[meithan]

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.

Future historians will be confused

[k6mfw]

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.

Doubtful

[RumGunner]

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.

What about the 'official' video on YouTube?

[Zibodiz]

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 [youtube.com].
It has about 3000 people watching it right now.

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[BoogieChile]

The answer to that question is: That's not the official site.

This is the official site: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia... [nasa.gov]

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[thinkwaitfast]

And the rest of reality.

#solipsism