No joke: Daily Mash banned from Facebook because platform doesn’t get irony
Joke posts apparently interpreted by Facebook as ‘oblique attempts to sell drugs’.
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Charlotte Tobitt
Charlotte Tobitt is UK editor at Press Gazette, having joined the site in February 2018 after spending four years at the Surrey Advertiser.
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