This apparently fake story describing 'El Chapo' Guzmán's escape appeared online on Friday. Abcnews.com.co On Friday, rumors that Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán had escaped from a Mexican prison for the third time began appearing on social media.

According to Mexican news site La Silla Rota, Friday's false report was driven by a false story from February, a month after Guzmán was recaptured, which was reposted (citing the Associated Press) by Abcnews.com.co, a site that appears to be a spoof of ABC News.

The article posted on the Abcnews.com.co site quotes "Fappy The Anti-Masturbation Dolphin," who called Guzmán "brave" for "stopp[ing] all the masturbation at his prison."

It also quotes a "U.S. Marshal" who appears to give post-escape orders inspired by Tommy Lee Jones' character in the Harrison Ford movie "The Fugitive."

A discerning reader would likely notice all the issues with that story and conclude it to be false.

But the Mexican government — twice burned by Guzmán's brazen escapes — apparently didn't want to risk letting reports of Guzmán's supposed breakout spread.

Mexico's interior minister tweeted this image purporting to show "El Chapo" Guzmán in jail. Twitter/@osoriochong

On Friday night, Mexico's interior minister, Miguel Osorio Chong, tweeted a photo of Guzmán that appeared to show the kingpin in a bare prison room, seated at a table, as shadowy figures, likely guards, look on in the background.

"For the rumors, an image ..." Chong wrote.

At this time, however, Guzmán remains in a Mexican prison outside of Ciudad Juarez, where he is fighting extradition proceedings that are underway against him.