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posted by janrinok on Friday October 28 2016, @08:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the here's-one-we-made-earlier dept.

Don't believe everything you see on TV... or Facebook:

People have been getting very excited about videos from the International Space Station (ISS) apparently broadcast "live" on Facebook - but they are not what they appear to be. The pictures are certainly stunning - astronauts in space suits apparently working outside the ISS against the background of the blue orb of the Earth.

Huge numbers have watching and commented on the feeds. Some 17m people viewed the "live" on Unilad's Facebook page and another 26m people watched four hours of footage on Viral USA's page. They appear to be old material from between one and three years ago. The eagle-eyed may have noticed that there was no mention of any such Facebook live on the social media accounts of NASA or the ISS, which would seem unusual.

Next up: live footage of the Challenger explosion.

Also at Newsweek and The Verge.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 28 2016, @02:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 28 2016, @02:03PM (#419842)

    Whoosh ... see drussel's comment :-P