From Business Insider, June 15:
The Onion is in the business of making jokes about pretty much
anything in the news. But this week, the satirical news site appears to
have trained its fire on one particular target: Facebook and its CEO
Mark Zuckerberg.
Over the last two days, The Onion has published
around a dozen articles ridiculing the social network and its founder,
and it says there's more on the way.
Why? The Onion's
editor-in-chief Chad Nackers told Business Insider that the comedy
onslaught is because Zuckerberg has "repeatedly betrayed the trust of
billions of people," and because Facebook is choking off traffic to The
Onion's website.
"We have 6,572,949 followers on Facebook who
receive an ever-decreasing amount of the content we publish on the
network," Nackers said in a statement, calling Facebook an "unwanted
interloper" between the publisher and its audience.
In other words, The Onion is on a mission.
A multi-day lampooning
One of the first in the barrage on Thursday poked fun of the 34-year-old CEO: Mark Zuckerberg Insists Anyone With Same Skewed Values And Unrelenting Thirst For Power Could Have Made Same Mistakes.
The Onion's parody news article quoted a would-be Zuckergerg:
"'I know I screwed up, and I understand why you're all upset, but if
you were a morally corrupt megalomaniac hell-bent on manipulating
society to your twisted whims, you would have done the exact same
thing,' said Zuckerberg, suggesting that people should put themselves in
the shoes of a self-absorbed asshole with a warped perception of
humanity who justified the exploitation of personal connections as a
means of amassing unfettered influence and profits to truly comprehend
why he made every completely fucked-up decision."
Another Onion article skewered Facebook's arguably cringey "Here Together" campaign: Facebook Users Ashamed Of Criticizing Company After Seeing Heartwarming 'Here Together' Ad Campaign.
After that came a flurry of more jabs at the Facebook CEO....MUCH MORE
