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# Facebook helps out the satire-challenged
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2014/09/facebook-satire-mark/
- Published: 2014-09-11T12:29:49.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T16:22:09.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: critical thinking, Facebook, satire, The Onion

This has been lurking in my tabs for a while. Facebook is [starting to experimentally mark satirical articles](http://mashable.com/2014/08/17/facebook-satire-tag/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) – from *The Onion* in particular – as such:

> “We are running a small test which shows the text “\[Satire\]” in front of links to satirical articles in the related articles unit in News Feed. This is because we received feedback that people wanted a clearer way to distinguish satirical articles from others in these units,” a Facebook representative told Mashable.

Some feel this isn’t needed:

> [@richjm](https://twitter.com/richjm?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) Oh no. Nothing like ruining a good joke by having to tell people it's meant to be funny— LauraOliver (@LauraOliver) [August 18, 2014](https://twitter.com/LauraOliver/status/501339228970971136?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)

My counter argument? There’s an entire site devoted to examples of [people not realising that *Onion* articles are humour](http://literallyunbelievable.org/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com):

![Tumblr naz6fhBDry1qkt6yoo1 1280](https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/09/tumblr_naz6fhBDry1qkt6yoo1_1280.png?resize=510%2C512 "tumblr_naz6fhBDry1qkt6yoo1_1280.png")