But what happens when that scene is fake? A Facebook page called “Newsfeed” took a heavily manipulated weather GIF, turned it into a video, added a standard thundering storm sound loop, and streamed it live for four hours. *
Image: newsfeed/facebook/screengrab
Guess what? It went absolutely nuts.
At one point, more than 90,000 people were watching it at the same time. The video got more than 14 million views, 360,000 shares, 256,000 comments, and 900,000 reactions.*
Naturally, people pointed out in the comments and on Twitter that the video was fake, but that didn't stop users from watching and sharing it:* Read more...