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Daily Mash removed from Facebook as platform ‘struggles with humour’

Daily Mash removed from Facebook as platform ‘struggles with humour’

One of the Daily Mash stories that saw the page penalised on Facebook, along with a banner on the website that explains the Facebook issue. Satirical newsbrand The Daily Mash has been banned from Facebook for almost four months after the platform “struggled to understand humour”. The Daily Mash, owned by publisher Digitalbox, had its page with one million followers completely removed from Facebook on 1 February after three posts were flagged for a supposed breach of community standards. The stories were: – Six ways to get through three weeks of Jubilee wank (which mentions drugs in two paragraphs) – Women allowed to take cocaine if it ruins their life and they beg for forgiveness, says Daily Mail – ‘Rather than buying and posting Christmas cards, we are spending the money on drugs’ Each of the stories were years old and had previously been posted without issue to the Facebook page, but when they were each posted again starting in December they were flagged as a breach of Facebook’s community standards on drugs. The Daily …