Many jibes, such as “Rebekah, Rebekah, wherefore art thou Rebekah,” poke fun at former Murdoch confidante and head of his British newspaper arm Rebekah Brooks, who resigned over the phone hacking scandal on Friday.

Some lines, such as “The nature of bad news infects the teller,” are taken directly from one of Shakespeare’s plays, but other posters have been more creative.

“If we Murdochs have offended, a full page ad and all is mended,” read one Twitter post, referring to Murdoch’s full-page apologies over phone hacking posted in British newspapers on Saturday .

In a twist on the title of Shakespeare’s “The Taming of the Shrew,” another poster wrote “taming of the screws,” referring to the News of the World’s “News of the Screws” nickname.

One message simply read: “A plague on all on your papers.”