Babylon Bee

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Satirical website censored in 2020.

Soft censorship by Facebook, in 2020
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Started: 2016
Founder: Adam Ford

Constitutes: Satire

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Babylon Bee is a satirical website. Several of its satires have preceded actual news stories.

Mainstream media recognition

Fox News published an article about a piece that mocks CNN on the Babylon Bee in January 2020.[1]

The NYT mentions two Babylon Bee articles in September 2020 in their reporting on "What Went Viral This Week":

  • 3. The Babylon Bee: NBA Players Wear Special Lace Collars To Honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • 6. The Babylon Bee: Fisher-Price Releases ‘My First Peaceful Protest’ Playset With House You Can Actually Burn Down

Robin Pogrebin of the New York Times in September 2020 retweeted the Babylon Bee article: "NBA Players Wear Special Lace Collars To Honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg" without any comment, probably believing it, later deleting the tweet.[2]

2020 Censorship

Facebook began soft censoring Babylon Bee in 2020.[3] Twitter started censoring it in August 2020.[4]

Criticism

A satirical piece on the occurrence of the military conflict between Israel and Iran in 2025.

By 2024 it is described as having a "Zionist bent",[5] hiding behind satire when they want to attack others and, according to Candace Owens, that they base their jokes on people who don't worship Israel and Bibi Netanyahu.[6]

In November 2025 the Bee made a post involving the 2024 Lebanon pager explosions and Megyn Kelly,[7] for her "platforming antisemites". This has been criticized as implying Israel may assassinate Americans for criticizing them.[8][9]


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References

  1. ↑ https://www.foxnews.com/media/babylon-bee-cnn-satire-fake
  2. ↑ http://archive.today/2020.09.25-163714/https://twitter.com/rpogrebin/status/1309312199278694400
  3. ↑ https://reclaimthenet.org/facebook-do-you-want-to-share-babylon-bee/
  4. ↑ https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/election-fraud-twitter-suspends-babylon-bee-bans-top-trump-supporter-bill-mitchell-gop/
  5. ↑ http://archive.today/2025.06.22-235201/https://www.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comments/pkqqhx/what_do_you_think_of_the_babylon_bee/
  6. ↑ https://www.rifttv.com/candace-owens-slams-the-babylon-bee-in-new-video/
  7. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20251113212022/https://babylonbee.com/news/megyn-kelly-gets-rid-of-old-pager-just-to-be-safe/
  8. ↑ https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5606187-babylon-bee-megyn-kelly-tweet/
  9. ↑ https://thepostmillennial.com/babylon-bee-posts-joke-suggesting-violence-against-megyn-kelly-then-deletes-it-amid-backlash
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