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Several Facebook pages have recently broadcast old videos of spacewalks and passed them off as brand-new.In reality, there hasn't been a single spacewalk since Sept. 1.

Over the years, there has been no shortage of suggestions that space events are hoaxes, and those claims are usually disproven quickly. But a sudden rash of Facebook Live broadcasts showing spacewalks at the International Space Station didn't really happen – at least not recently –and debunkers have been hard at work to prove it.

According to the Verge, the Facebook web pages UNILADand Viral USA and passing them off as live events to their millions of fans. Due to the large following on their respective pages, they quickly went viral, and before long, tens of millions were pulled into watching spacewalks , BBC.com reported.

There's certainly no shortage of footage– NASA ,many of which have been posted to YouTube or other websites. But there hasn't been a spacewalk at the ISS since Sept. 1, so any "live broadcast" you've watched on Facebook since then wasn't really happening.

An example of one such Facebook Live event that was recently broadcast.

(Facebook/Viral USA)

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"While the agency provides live views from exterior space station cameras through the ISS HD Earth Viewing Experiment, there has been no activity outside the space station since the Orbital ATK Cygnus cargo spacecraft ," a NASA spokeswoman told Gizmodo.

UNILAD's "broadcast" was perhaps the easiest to debunk– during that Facebook Live, Mashable said the two Russian cosmonauts performing the spacewalk , which occurred in 2014. That would date the spacewalk back to 2013, when that particular torch relay happened.

As a good rule of thumb, it's best to stick with NASA or major media organizations on events such as theseand check NASA's website for a schedule of upcoming spacewalks.

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