Seth Dillon, CEO of the wildly popular Babylon Bee satire site, announced on Twitter Thursday that the company’s lawyers have sent a letter to the New York Times accusing the paper of defamation and demanding the retraction of an article calling the Bee a “far-right misinformation site” that “sometimes trafficked in misinformation under the guise of satire.”
The New York Times article in question, published in March, describes how Facebook content moderators struggle to know how to handle satire. Mike Isaac, who penned the piece, apparently consulted his thesaurus and found some nifty pejoratives to describe the Bee.
(New York Times screenshot)
Dillon pushed back against the description in a Twitter thread on March 21:
Adam Ford, founder of the Babylon Bee, called out Isaac personally:
Dillon pointed out that “No other examples of far-right misinformation sites are offered. The Babylon Bee is the only one cited in this piece.”
“Notably, the words ‘trafficked in misinformation’ are hyperlinked, presumably a supportive source,” Dillon continued. “But the link they point to is another NY Times piece that actually refutes—rather than supports—the claim being made here by accurately describing us as a legitimate satire site.”
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I am a big fan of the Babylon Bee. It is like an editorial cartoon that makes fun of liberalism and its supporters. I believe that is why the NY Times is trying to denigrate it. Liberals used to chuckle at editorial cartoons that made fun of conservatives and Republicans. They seem to have lost their sense of humor now that they are the targets.
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