There has been an ongoing effort to classify The Babylon Bee as “disinformation” rather than satire. It has been a fight since Snopes started fact-checking us in 2019. They don’t do this to The Onion. This conversation between Wiki editors is illuminating.
They desperately want The Babylon Bee to be censored. I wonder why...
I should add that these “fact-checks” from Snopes, USA Today, and now Newsweek, are done with partnership/funding from Facebook. FB has wanted us gone ever since we started going viral on their platform. They’re paying journos to give their censorship the look of legitimacy.
These are the kinds of disclaimers you’ll see at the bottom. Facebook has already greatly suppressed our traffic, likely using these fact-checks they are paying for to justify it.
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Incredible. Two Facebook-funded researchers sent out @TheBabylonBee satire to trick people, but they hid the source, removed the headline and picture, and re-phrased the claim to make it sound more real. Then they used the data to prove that Babylon Bee is deceiving people??
@TheBabylonBee Here are the original authors of the study. Two of them funded by Facebook. Is Facebook using their crap research, laundering it through @snopes , then using that as an impetus for removing @TheBabylonBee content with invisible algorithms? Check this out...
@TheBabylonBee@snopes Here is another article written by this guy talking about fighting fake news algorithmically by recognizing "common word patterns" in "fake news" and assigning a credibility score based on data from...wait for it... @snopes. They are trying to censor @TheBabylonBee invisibly.