{"id":227069,"date":"2020-03-26T06:14:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T10:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/facebook-censors-coronavirus-memes-with-zombies-cthulhu-for-sharing-false-information-epicstream\/"},"modified":"2020-03-26T06:14:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T10:14:25","slug":"facebook-censors-coronavirus-memes-with-zombies-cthulhu-for-sharing-false-information-epicstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/transhuman-news-blog\/censorship\/facebook-censors-coronavirus-memes-with-zombies-cthulhu-for-sharing-false-information-epicstream\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Censors Coronavirus Memes with Zombies &amp; Cthulhu For Sharing False Information &#8211; Epicstream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>With millions of people all over the world staying at home to quarantine themselves from the COVID-19\/Coronavirus outbreak, the Internet is enjoying the latest memes inspired by the pandemic, and there's a bunch of them that will make you laugh. However, Facebook has censored some of the obviously fictional onesfor \"False Information\" that were checked by \"Independent fact-checkers\".<\/p>\n<p>For instance, check out this COVID-19 meme featuring Cthulhu, the iconic cosmic entity created by writer H.P. Lovecraft. This meme was posted on the Fantasy and Sci-Fi Rock My World Facebook page:<\/p>\n<p>(Note that the embedded posts below don't show it as censored but when you view it on Facebook, they are censored the way shown in the screenshots below).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for confirming that Cthulhu doesn't exist, Independent fact-checkers!<\/p>\n<p>Another post from Coronavirus Public Meme Service, aFacebook dedicated to Coronavirus memes, got the same kind of censorship:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>It's hilarious that Facebook is fact-checking memes that obviously feature creatures that don't exist in this world. I guess Facebook's anti-fake news alogirthms just can't take a joke. The reactions in thecomments are also amusing.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Facebook memers need their own multipass:<\/p>\n<p>Related:COVID-19 May Delay The Falcon and The Winter Soldier<\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Originally posted here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/epicstream.com\/news\/JakeVyper\/Facebook-Censors-Coronavirus-Memes-with-Zombies--Cthulhu-as-False-Information\" title=\"Facebook Censors Coronavirus Memes with Zombies &amp; Cthulhu For Sharing False Information - Epicstream\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook Censors Coronavirus Memes with Zombies &amp; Cthulhu For Sharing False Information - Epicstream<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> With millions of people all over the world staying at home to quarantine themselves from the COVID-19\/Coronavirus outbreak, the Internet is enjoying the latest memes inspired by the pandemic, and there's a bunch of them that will make you laugh. However, Facebook has censored some of the obviously fictional onesfor \"False Information\" that were checked by \"Independent fact-checkers\". For instance, check out this COVID-19 meme featuring Cthulhu, the iconic cosmic entity created by writer H.P <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/transhuman-news-blog\/censorship\/facebook-censors-coronavirus-memes-with-zombies-cthulhu-for-sharing-false-information-epicstream\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-censorship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227069"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}