Facebook Threatens Satire Site Babylon Bee over CNN Story That Snopes Rated 'False'

pjmedia ^ | 3/1/18 | Paula Bolyard

[Revel]

Christian satire site The Babylon Bee received a terse warning from Facebook this week after the "independent fact-checkers" at Snopes reported that one of the site's humor articles was "false."

Adam Ford, who runs The Babylon Bee, was warned by Facebook that a recent satire article about CNN "contains information disputed by (Snopes.com) an independent fact checker." Repeat offenders, Ford was told, "will see their distribution reduced and their ability to monetize and advertized [sic] removed."

The story in question pokes fun at CNN with the headline: "CNN Purchases Industrial-Sized Washing Machine To Spin News Before Publication."

[Ciaphas Cain]

D’oh! Beat me by ten seconds :-)

[Revel]

OH Boy...That was close...

Here is a link to the “offending” story.

http://babylonbee.com/news/cnn-purchases-industrial-sized-washing-machine-spin-news-publication/

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Someone needs to invent a stealth nuclear virus that will infect fb, including all backups. Then one day ignite it, and poof, fb gone forever.

[PlateOfShrimp]

This craft-beer Calvinist loves the Bee.

[goldstategop]

Making fun of the fake news media is now verboten.

And FB ends up looking stupid.

I guess liberals can’t tell satire apart from news.

But considering they spread fake news, their lack of humor is a serious touch.

[ptsal]

The Control-LEFT is a humorless bunch of over-sensitive snowflakes.

Just another example of millennial madness.

[LostPassword]

Russian propaganda on social media is SO dangerous because liberals are SO stupid.

If snopes can’t “correct” it quickly they’ll believe something no matter how stupid. Unfortunately liberals also believe it when snopes “corrects” a fact. Many snopes “corrections” should have to be counted as DNC contributions.

[Flick Lives]

The story in question pokes fun at CNN with the headline: "CNN Purchases Industrial-Sized Washing Machine To Spin News Before Publication."

The fact checkers at FaceBook are weapons-grade stupid if they thought this was a real story. The real story is that CNN purchased an entire chain of laundromats from George Jefferson to spin their news before publication.

[Leep]

fB Sucks at so many levels.
From all the extra unwanted junk to crap like this.
I wish there was a stream line version of FB.

[budj]

It’s more fun to watch snowflakes boil than just melt.

[savedbygrace]

FaceBook’s horrendously misguided hiring practices come home to roost.

[KarlInOhio]

Will they also tell me that Lilliput and Blefuscu are not at war over how to open eggs and that Irish children are not good to eat?

[Flick Lives]

UPDATE: March 2, 11:47 p.m. EST: The Daily Caller is reporting that Facebook has apologized, claiming the whole thing was a "mistake."

Caught in a lie, FB lies again to cover their first lie. FFB.

[fishtank]

Calvinist Dog Corrects Owner: ‘No One Is A Good Boy’

Here ya' go, CNN. --- Have a parody party with this story...

[Joe 6-pack]

Facebook: Because MySpace just wasn’t lame enough.

[House Atreides]

See...you can have your doctrine correct and STILL have fun playing with a stick.

[JBW1949]

This HAS to be satire.....

I didn’t think even liberals were THAT stupid....

[Hulka]

And this is true because the left has no sense of humor. They are physically, emotionally and intellectually incapable of humor because EVERYTHING is so darned serious.
The left are living a dull, moody and pathetic life.
Gawd, the left has now totally lost it.

[HiTech RedNeck]

The Bee just trolled Facebook and Snopes!