> msm would lead you to believe they did

Yes, blame the media. A faceless abstraction to take your frustrations out on.

The reason people believe Facebook owned the satellite is because of Zuck's own words: "SpaceX’s launch failure destroyed our satellite."

Note he said "our," not "the bird we were going to lease time on."

Not that much different from people saying "my car" when they're still making payments to a bank.

Pocketstar is right. Media is supposed to do the checks for any statements and provide the correct info, not just reprint tweets and dramatize them.

99% of "media" reporters are general assignment. That means today they're reporting on rockets. Tomorrow on cats. Nobody can be an expert in everything, which is why there is niche media.

In mass media, there's a spectrum between fast and accurate. The internet age prioritizes fast over accurate.

Yeah actually I think that's the way almost anyone would have described it. Just like you say "my office" for the space your company leases and you work in. But I also agree that it is part of what the news media is supposed to do to point out that the satellite wasn't actually owned by Facebook.