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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.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 28 2016, @06:26PM
Facebook is performing censorship.
The big pipeline protests had people live streaming before they jammed cell signals, and those videos were subsequently altered just minutes later to be scrambled beyond use. The police state is fully realized, no quibbles or quabbles.
So far at least we don't have mass roundups, but activists are targeted for marginalization and if that doesn't work they are arrested on false charges or intimidated / murdered. I guess the new message is "don't rock our boat and you get to live out the rest of your peon life".