While many social media networks are struggling with slowing the spread of fake news, Facebook is suffering from the opposite problem. People are sharing jokes thinking they are just funny, fake stories, but then they are finding out that they are closer to the truth than any Fox News or CNN article.Excerpted from the article, "Facebook Bans The Babylon Bee For Being Too Accurate," in the Babylon Bee.
"The Babylon Bee claims to be satire, but their articles keep coming true. It's a clear case of false advertising," said Mark Zuckerberg. "We can't allow a news source this pure, this true, this perfect to infiltrate our platform and actually tell the people the truth."
“How The Babylon Bee, a Right-Wing Satire Site, Capitalizes on Confusion.”
Yep, a satire site would do that. Confusion is brought on by fools, and they warrant satirizing.
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Guess they'll be coming after SNL next.
Sure they will.
~Thomas Moore
The problem isn’t The Bee. Every time you do some outrageous satire about the Left, they take it as a challenge and they do something even more outrageous.
I like to say I’m old enough to remember when The Bee was a satire site.
*sob!*
Paging that entertainer, Rachael Madcow.
Nothing hurts liberals more than being sincerely laughed at.
Especially when it is highly accurate satire.
“...sometimes tricks a bit too well...” It’s not fair, apparently, because they cannot discern between satire and news. And because some of the jabs strike too close to the truth, it would seem! As has been said, the only distress of a rebuke (or satirization) is the element of truth to it.
It’s like what The Daily Show does to left-wingers, except we know the Bee isn’t actual news. They really fall for it.
The pot calling the kettle black...
If the New York Times now disparages parody sites, they should close themselves down.
They are a parody of a ‘News Organization’.