Facebook apologizes for banning New Yorker cartoon - NewsX
  • 5 years ago
Facebook has apologized for temporarily shutting down The New Yorker Cartoons page over one particular cartoon of Adam and Eve that shows the pair totally nude. A mocking redo of Adam and Eve with the pair in bulky clothes was misunderstood as a serious attempt to appease Facebook's obscenity patrol, the New York Daily News reported. But that wasn't the only funny business facing New Yorker cartoon editor Bob Mankoff, who also had to correct several media outlets that fell for a joke he and the artist made soon after the alleged censorship. Drawn by Mick Stevens, the cartoon shows the first man and woman sitting shirtless beneath an apple tree.

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