He said Musk had wanted to confirm if their account had been suspended for their post and even mused that he might need to buy Twitter. In April, Dillon claimed Musk had earlier reached out to Babylon Bee. If the cost of telling the truth is the loss of our Twitter account, then so be it.” Babylon Bee’s CEO Seth Dillon later tweeted, “We’re not deleting anything. Twitter subsequently suspended the account, stating the misgendering was in violation of its hateful conduct policy. The study found that “stories published by the Bee were among the most shared factually inaccurate content in almost every survey we conducted”.ĭon't Miss | Under Elon Musk, how Twitter will change as a private company Twitter ban and the Elon Musk connectionīabylon Bee’s twitter account was suspended in March this year, after it tweeted, “The Babylon Bee’s Man of the Year is Rachel Levine,” referring to the US Assistant Health Secretary, who openly identifies as a trangender woman.
In 2019, The Conversation published research by scholars of communication from Ohio State University, which found that Americans frequently mistook satirical articles from Babylon Bee, The Onion and other websites as legitimate news. This has drawn the ire of Babylon Bee, which claims it is being unfairly targetted and by rating their content as false or fake news, they get penalised and run the risk of being demonetized or even deplatformed. This was the case in March 2018, when the website published an article which said CNN was using an industrial-sized washing machine to “spin” the news. Many of Babylon Bee’s viral posts have frequently been mistaken for real news, drawing the attention of fact-checking websites like Snopes, which have flagged them as false. Other articles, such as ‘NBA Players Wear Special Lace Collars to Honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg’, were also shared by many people who thought it was real. In October 2020, after the website published a satirical news article with the headline, ‘Twitter Shuts Down Entire Network to Slow Spread of Negative Biden News’, Trump retweeted the story, apparently without realising it was a parody. Satire has often been mistaken for legitimate news reports and Babylon Bee’s content is no exception.
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