Facebook Censors Coronavirus Memes with Zombies & Cthulhu For Sharing False Information


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 ones for "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. Lovecraft. This meme was posted on the Fantasy and Sci-Fi Rock My World Facebook page:

(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).

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Thanks for confirming that Cthulhu doesn't exist, Independent fact-checkers!

Another post from Coronavirus Public Meme Service, a Facebook dedicated to Coronavirus memes, got the same kind of censorship:

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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 the comments are also amusing.

Maybe Facebook memers need their own multipass:

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