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IT’S CALLED SATIRE: Facebook Slaps Fact-Check on Babylon Bee Satirical Lebron James Photo
NewsBusters ^ | 9/26/2022 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 09/26/2022 7:06:10 AM PDT by JV3MRC

The trigger-happy oligarchs at the censorship-obsessed Facebook are apparently so dense they don’t understand satire.

Satire site The Babylon Bee posted a funny photo of Los Angeles Lakers stars LeBron James and Anthony Davis wearing laced collars to honor the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The posted meme was a snapshot of a two-year-old Bee article published Sept. 22, 2020. According to Facebook, the joke was “false information.” The platform linked out to a 2020 fact-check by CheckYourFact.com to rebuke The Babylon Bee. The fact-check was headlined: “FACT CHECK: DID THE LAKERS WEAR LACE COLLARS TO HONOR RUTH BADER GINSBURG?” The Daily Caller wholly owns CheckYourFact.com.

News flash, Facebook: The meme was clearly a joke! The tech platform apparently realized how foolish it looked and later removed the fact-check from the post, but not before being blasted on social media for applying the fact-check in the first place.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: babylonbee; blogpimp; facebook; lebronjames; satire
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1 posted on 09/26/2022 7:06:10 AM PDT by JV3MRC
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I thinks it’s already settled science......liberals have no sense of humor.


2 posted on 09/26/2022 7:08:59 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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Facebook “fact” checkers know nothing about satire.


3 posted on 09/26/2022 7:09:03 AM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: JV3MRC

Even lib lawyers pretended to take it at face value when President Trump funnied about asking the Russians if they had Hillary’s emails.


4 posted on 09/26/2022 7:11:44 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: al_c

Yes, this is about stifling dissent. The only reason they don’t execute ridiculers of the left is because they can’t... Yet!


5 posted on 09/26/2022 7:12:40 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: JV3MRC

So now the Babylon Bee got caught printing fake news. It’s about time!

But wait. It gets worse. I just looked it up. There is no media company in Babylon, Iraq named the “Bee”. Evidently the whole company is fake. Somebody should tell Facebook about this.

😀


6 posted on 09/26/2022 7:13:57 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: V_TWIN

I thinks it’s already settled science......liberals have no sense of humor.


you are correct sir!

the LEFT also knows alinsky

they cannot allow mocking of LEFTISTs

they know how effective it is


7 posted on 09/26/2022 7:16:45 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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I thought I was bad about getting taken by the Bee, but I always figure it out eventually. Not these guys LOL


8 posted on 09/26/2022 7:20:40 AM PDT by Doctor Congo
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Leftists can’t understand humor. Their own version of humor is either blasphemy against God or bitter hatred of anything not like themselves.


9 posted on 09/26/2022 7:21:11 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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> liberals have no sense of humor <

True that. And what passes for liberal humor are just crude insults. You can see examples of that every evening on the late-night talk shows.

Host: “Trump is a silly a$$.”
Audience laughs hysterically.


10 posted on 09/26/2022 7:23:11 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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Here is the link to the original Bee article about the lace collars: https://babylonbee.com/news/nfl-to-adorn-all-uniforms-with-lace-doilies-in-to-honor-rbg


11 posted on 09/26/2022 7:25:19 AM PDT by Doctor Congo
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If they only knew how much we laugh at them behind their backs...


12 posted on 09/26/2022 7:27:02 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: Doctor Congo

Thank you.


13 posted on 09/26/2022 7:27:34 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: JV3MRC

The Bee story was flagged as false because it wasn’t as ridiculous and unbelievable as the real life MSM headlines we are currently seeing.


14 posted on 09/26/2022 7:32:50 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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Unfortunately there’s a new species of FReepers that are as humorless as these fact checkers.


15 posted on 09/26/2022 7:37:02 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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I sometimes think they use foreigners as fact checkers. I was thrown in FB jail for 30 days when some “fact checker” in Ghana did not like my satire post about homos needing an agricultural spray “Hog Mate” to make them interested in girls.

“But then, they would probably be chasing sows instead of girls!” WHAM! 30 days.

I almost got another 30 days when I posted on FB that we needed to start doing what Dean Martin said in ROUGH NIGHT IN JERICHO.

“Lock him up. We’ll hang him tomorrow right after the trial.”

WHAM! 30 days! I protested and FB backed down.

I posted the same on GAB with no problems.


16 posted on 09/26/2022 7:40:05 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( FR is on GAB! https://gab.com/groups/67851)
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The only thing FB accomplished here is to convince millions of Americans that the Bee story is actually true.


17 posted on 09/26/2022 7:53:52 AM PDT by nicollo ("I said no!")
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To: al_c
Facebook “fact” checkers know nothing about satire.

Facebook "fact" checkers would have a tough time pouring piss out of a boot with directions written on the heel.

18 posted on 09/26/2022 8:01:11 AM PDT by dearolddad
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To: nicollo
The only thing FB accomplished here is to convince millions of Americans that the Bee story is actually true.

And the corollary, FB is actually false...

19 posted on 09/26/2022 8:01:27 AM PDT by null and void (Can't hear the Rod Serling narration? You are not in the audience. You are a part of the story.)
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To: Doctor Congo

LOL .. thanks I had not seen this before.


20 posted on 09/26/2022 8:02:35 AM PDT by Irish Eyes
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