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: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 28 2016, @10:44AM
However, any organization engaging in media activities should come under scrutiny for bias. Whether that involves news from space, or footage of a children's school being bombed from the air. If something is reported, it happens (as in this fake facebook case). If not reported, the children's school blown to bits didn't happen. The US has known this since Vietnam so it knows to keep journalism in check. Its branch organizations such as facebook are complicit in propaganda activities to benefit US special interests.
Don't be surprised if this space footage contained subliminal messages (or something more advanced we don't even realize yet).
I have a better plan: Don't watch domestic TV and don't use Facebook. Both are meant to manipulate and control. You don't want to be controlled or manipulated.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 28 2016, @11:15AM
Hey, the events were happening at the exact same time that the recording was made ... that's the very definition of "live" !
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 28 2016, @11:28AM
That's live recording, not live broadcast.
(Score: 1) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Friday October 28 2016, @01:25PM
Even live broadcast has some kind of delay.
The one you cannot avoid is the speed of light.
For modern digital broadcasting, there is a frame-buffer, which will delay you at least 1 frame.
Streaming on the Internet will typically add another 30 seconds or so.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 28 2016, @02:03PM
Whoosh ... see drussel's comment :-P
(Score: 2) by drussell on Friday October 28 2016, @01:34PM
Well, it was LIVE at the time, wasn't it? :)
LOL
Gullible people are easily misled... Full story at 11:00... :)
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 28 2016, @04:11PM
Lying people and stupid people... and you?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 30 2016, @08:33AM
world does not love truth-sayers
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday October 28 2016, @04:59PM
If an event is not being liked on FB and retweeted, is it really happening?
It's not live unless the social media have it trending.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 28 2016, @06:04PM
(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".