The Chaser’s Blistering Satirical Post About Mark Zuckerberg Has Gone Viral In The US
He probably wants to fact-check these claims...
Australia’s favourite itinerant pranksters, The Chaser, have done it again, and by it, I mean potentially defame Mark Zuckerberg for a very funny piece of satire.
Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook has hit back at Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, after Twitter began fact-checking President Trump’s Tweets. Twitter added a warning phrase to two tweets by the President reading “Get the facts about mail-in ballots” that guides users to a page with fact checks and news stories about Trump’s unsubstantiated claims.
In response to this move, Zuckerberg made the following statement:
“I believe strongly that Facebook shouldn’t be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online,” Zuckerberg said to Fox News. “I think, in general, private companies shouldn’t be, especially these platform companies, shouldn’t be in the position of doing that.”
This obviously left the social media mogul open to quick satire, with The Chaser definitely knocking it out of the park with their headline, which they bravely put up on Facebook itself, making a huge, false and ludicrous claim that definitely needs to be fact-checked. That’s the joke.
Posted by The Chaser on Wednesday, 27 May 2020
Incredible. pic.twitter.com/dwBAmc3RGE
— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) May 28, 2020
While the headline is the winner, the whole post is very funny too:
“On the other hand, I just really like the taste of goat urine,” explained Zuckerberg thoughtfully, “can’t get enough,” the post claims.
The post has been picked up by people in the US, and gone viral over a couple of different social media platforms.
. @chaser going after it. This post has gone viral in UShttps://t.co/BnCMoyZOJ4 https://t.co/1pbBaKUBHl
— Dave Earley (@earleyedition) May 29, 2020
Just spat out my coffee https://t.co/TCrYCDBXPo pic.twitter.com/rIoGQspJDh
— Charlotte Alter (@CharlotteAlter) May 28, 2020
Junkee would like to clearly and legally state that we do not believe Mark Zuckerberg is a child molester, or likes the taste of goat urine.
Until Zuck discovers Australian defamation law. https://t.co/KaAKGPjfHw
— Josh Taylor (@joshgnosis) May 29, 2020