Hooters claims Facebook page was hacked after rape joke post

A now-deleted photo posted to the restaurant chain’s page showed a woman pointing to her crotch and had the caption ‘proof she was asking for it.’

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Yes, Hooters’ whole business model is to be sexy and playful, but whoever was running the social media over on the site this morning really messed up when they thought that posting a picture that suggests that women ask to be raped would be an appropriate thing to put on the site. Rape isn’t funny. It just isn’t.

A few hours after the photo was posted, and after numerous comments that the joke was inappropriate, Hooters deleted it and posted this response:

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