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While it might make sense in cost of disagreeable to halt the Middle Eastern unrest, it rattling makes no sense in real-world terms. In addition, the last declare in the article should hit clued folks in that this was meet a parody: (Sunday Humor article at Dawnwires.com are meant to nutriment our readers. They haw or haw not be the truth).

The parody that claimed mountain of newspapers and blogs in the Middle East was posted at DawnWires on Sunday, Feb. 27. The article advisable that King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia was planning to acquire Facebook, for $150 billion, to meet the unrest in the Middle East.

The initial paragraph of the spoof said:

Inside sources within the kingdom suggest that he is very status with Mark Zukerberg for allowing the sicken to get out of control. In a personal gathering between Mark Zuckerberg and King Abdullah on Jan 25, 2011, Zuckerberg had promised that he would not allow any sicken pages to be bacilliform on Facebook even patch he allowed Egypt and Libya sicken pages to be formed. But lowercase did King Abdullah undergo Zuckerberg. Had he seen the flick “Social Network”, he would hit been meliorate advised than to trust Zuckerberg.

Even without lettered it's a parody, that paragraph has to advance to a chuckle, and make one astonishment most the severity of the "article." Commenters, as substantially as Middle East media, took the article seriously. One said:

The freedom of some people is threatened. If Zuckerberg is a human being, he has to refuse the substance no concern how bounteous it is.

In an example of Middle Eastern media existence tricked by the joke, the Tehran Times printed the article, pretty close to articulate for word, without attributing DawnTimes, either. It also hasn't printed a disavowal or pulled down the article.

Interestingly, likewise the note at the end, DawnWires also stated the article was posted to "Lol News," added evidence some missed.

Via: DawnWires