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This Mark Zuckerberg parody is so good that people think it's real

"Eat the paper."

Gianluca Mezzofiore

on February 21, 2017

Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable

We all know that Mark Zuckerberg's resolution for 2017 is to visit and meet people in every U.S. state by the end of the year.

Faithful to his "personal challenge," the Facebook CEO posted a picture of him and his wife Priscilla Chan as they walk along the arcade of a town in Alabama, while reading a local newspaper.

Along with the image, he offered a tribute to local newspapers and journalists who "work tirelessly and sometimes put their lives in danger to surface the truth."

"Today Priscilla and I stopped by some local newspapers as we drove through Alabama," he wrote. "The folks there were working hard over President's Day weekend to keep their communities informed. It seems like a good time to say thank you to all the journalists around the world who work tirelessly and sometimes put their lives in danger to surface the truth."

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"I don't always agree with everything you say, but that's how democracy is supposed to work."

"I know I join many people in America and across the world in thanking you for your work."

However, someone on Twitter found it ironic that the founder of Facebook, which many people credit as being indirectly responsible for the shutdown of many local papers, was praising journalists.

So he rewrote the post in a hilarious parody: