Babylon Bee

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Satirical website censored in 2020.

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Soft censorship by Facebook, in 2020

https://babylonbee.com/ link Facebook
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

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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]

This and related criticism led somebody to create the X account TheBabylonBibi, to "satirizing the one thing the bee won't sting".

References

[1] ttps://www.foxnews.com/media/babylon-bee-cnn-satire-fake

[2] ttp://archive.today/2020.09.25-163714/https://twitter.com/rpogrebin/status/1309312199278694400

[3] ttps://reclaimthenet.org/facebook-do-you-want-to-share-babylon-bee/

[4] ttps://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/08/election-fraud-twitter-suspends-babylon-bee-bans-top-trump-supporter-bill-mitchell-gop/

[5] ttp://archive.today/2025.06.22-235201/https://www.reddit.com/r/Christianity/comments/pkqqhx/what_do_you_think_of_the_babylon_bee/

[6] ttps://www.rifttv.com/candace-owens-slams-the-babylon-bee-in-new-video/

[7] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20251113212022/https://babylonbee.com/news/megyn-kelly-gets-rid-of-old-pager-just-to-be-safe/

[8] ttps://thehill.com/homenews/media/5606187-babylon-bee-megyn-kelly-tweet/

[9] ttps://thepostmillennial.com/babylon-bee-posts-joke-suggesting-violence-against-megyn-kelly-then-deletes-it-amid-backlash

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