Getting arrested for making jokes on Facebook isn’t funny By . Patrick Jaicomo and Anya Bidwell. Published Nov. 3, 2022. Updated Nov. 3, 2022, 10:08 p.m. ET.

Waylon posted his joke on Facebook near the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, in March 2020. Using capital letters, emoji, and ridiculous hashtags, he claimed that local sheriff’s deputies had ...

The governor's Facebook post about his recovery from back surgery, but some took seriously his joke about postponing his budget address.