If you logged onto Facebook today , you might have seen dead the great unwashed . Not like in a Haley Joel Osment way , but because multiple story were display content that said users had died , even even though they had n’t .
A remembrance banner at the top of different profiles appeared on Friday afternoon , and not even CEO Mark Zuckerberg was spare from the onslaught . The bogus Zuckerberg memorial read : " We go for people who love Mark will get consolation in the things others apportion to recollect and celebrate his life . " Oh , how Dear Leader had fallen !
But in reality , the earthly concern ’s largest internet political boss is not deceased . This is indeed thelatest unknown hoax to envelope the social internet , so if your mother calls you in a fit of grief - stricken scare , check that to pick up the damn phone .
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In fact , Facebook sent Gizmodo a statementabout mistaking its survive user for deceased one . And the ship’s company is sorry for the strain and inconvenience it has triggered by untimely killing off its customers :
" For a brief period today , a message mean for memorialized profiles was erroneously post to other account . This was a awful fault that we have now bushel . We are very dingy that this go on and we work as apace as potential to fix it , " the statement said .
This has surely been a rough week for Facebook . Yesterday , Zuckerberg ( who is n’t dead ) defended the company ’s allegedresponsibility in disseminating fake news storiesthat might have influenced the United States presidential election . While thecompany does acknowledge it has a bogus news predicament , Zuckerberg feigns responsibility , sayingthat the 44 % of Americans who get their news from sometimes spurious germ on Facebookare adults who form their political beliefs IRL .
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What a time to be alive .
Sam Blum is a News Staff Writer for Thrillist . He ’s also a martial arts and music nerd who take account a fine sandwich and cute dogs . get hold his clips in The Guardian , Rolling Stone , The A.V. Club and Vice . He ’s on Twitter@Blumnessmonster .
