Facebook fact checks and censors Die Hard memes, labels them as “False Information”

Popular memes from the Christmas movie Die Hard, that satirically praise Sergeant "Al Powell" for stopping a "terrorist attack in Los Angeles at Nakatomi Plaza during Christmas 1988," have been popular for the last couple of years.

Despite being a meme and a joke, it is now receiving a "false information" Facebook tag and being covered over and censored as part of Facebook's fact-checking program.

Facebook's "Fact Check"

Of course, all this is a simple joke - the Sergeant being the famous actor Reginald VelJohnson, who helps Die Hard's protagonist, played by Bruce Willis, to stop a terrorist plot in the movie.

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