(NEWS BUSTERS) – Satire is not meant to be taken seriously. Yet Big Tech and its tools find a way to label any humor coming from the right as disinformation or fake news.
The Babylon Bee has been repeatedly victimized by this tug of war. In a public history page known as a "Talk" page on Wikipedia, editors with anonymous tags or usernames discussed whether or not the conservative satire site could "legally be considered 'satire'?" The alleged Twitter account for Bee managing editor Joel Berry tweeted a thread about this Wikipedia incident on Feb. 18.
"There has been an ongoing effort to classify The Babylon Bee as 'disinformation' rather than satire," reportedly said Berry. "They desperately want The Babylon Bee to be censored. I wonder why… ."
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