Posted on 12/11/2024 5:51:59 AM PST by Red Badger
Reuters is at it again with their team of ‘fact checkers’. They’re targeting The Babylon Bee, a satirical website, over an article that states the most favoured farewell in the UK, ‘cheerio mate’ has been replaced with ‘Allahu Akbar.’
The humorous satire piece states, “A recent poll conducted by the University of Oxford just revealed that ‘Allahu Akbar’ has officially replaced ‘Cheerio, mate!’ as the most popular greeting in the UK,” adding that experts called the results of the “survey” a “flippin’ landslide, old bean.”
Kyle Mann, the Editor-in-Chief of the Babylon Bee, shared the lunacy on X, noting that “Reuters fact-checkers reached out for comment on our Babylon Bee story about ‘Allahu Akbar’ replacing ‘Cheerio Mate’ in the UK. I tried to help them out.”Mann then shared screenshots of the ridiculous message he was sent by Reuters
The message reads “I’m contacting you from the fact-checking desk at Reuters. We investigate false and misleading claims spreading on social media. Our fact checks can help curb the circulation of misinformation.”
By going after satire, OK.
The message continues, “We’re currently looking into a claim that, sharing a Babylon Bee article, says “Allahu Akbar” has officially replaced “Cheerio, mate!” as the most popular greeting in the UK. I have pasted it below for your convenience.”
“We plan to write a fact check to set the record straight. It’s clearly a satirical article but I am reaching out to you should you wish to challenge this or comment in the fact-check article. Please get in touch if you would like to,” it ridiculously adds.
If it’s “clearly a satirical article” why are they wasting time ‘fact checking’ it?
If it said that “Praise Jesus” had replaced “cheerio mate,” would they fact check that? Probably not.
Mann shared a screenshot of his hilarious response, as he told the self appointed arbiters of truth that “This story is true. We stand by its factual accuracy 100%” and then signed the email “Allahu Akbar.”
The whole point of the satirical story was as a comment on the fact that the most common name in England for boys is now Muhammad.
People who work for Reuters are not stupid. They understand what satire is, but they are still engaged on their obsessive quest to label everything that they dislike as “misinformation,” betraying the fact that they are censorious partisan activists.
If you want to go down a rabbit hole with the Reuters fact checking team start here and see how long it takes before you encounter the Southern Poverty Law Center and George Soros. It’s about three or four clicks.
‘The Bee’ is going to have a LOT of fun with this one and all future ‘fact checks.’
But, Socialists are humorless drones, so they won’t even realize that the joke’s on THEM. But WE will. :)
*SMIRK*
Lesson learned: its HARD to see satire or irony when your life and ethos is based entirely upon just those qualities.
It’s like goldfish not knowing they live in water
They have no sense of irony.
The enemedia is going to find out the hard way that Deep State doesn’t need a huge number of presstitutes to peddle the same propaganda.
This is really very similar to a heckler at a comedy club.......your in the comedians house......it rarely ends well for the idiot that was stupid enough to open their yap.
Honestly, if Reuters keeps this up, The Babylon Bee might have to start adding a disclaimer: “Warning: This is satire. Please do not operate heavy machinery while fact-checking.”
Just to be clear there is an entire Censorship Bureaucracy in DC .gov that works hand in hand with Big Tech.
Here is an excellent article on just one little piece of that bureaucracy:
In its August 30, 2019, article, the Babylon Bee noted:
A new Reuters poll released Friday indicated that 100% of people who are James Comey believe that James Comey did nothing wrong as the director of the FBI.
I thought reuters was a satire site. Oh! They pulled one on the great Bee!
Reuter fart checkers (even if not intended, I’ll use the term) would have had a field day with Mark Twain. I can see it now: His name was never Mark Twain.
I read recently...for real...that the most popular male name given to newborns in Britain is “Mohammed”. And that’s not The Bee.
That’s what prompted The Bee to write their satire piece.................
I think the big red pill for Musk was his ex transing a son, effectively “killing” him. They call it dead-naming for a reason.
“So I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus after that.”
Incredibly revealing moment from Musk. When you think of the incredible influence he has had on events in the last year, think of this.
Excerpt of Musk interview with Jordan Peterson.
https://x.com/wideawake_media/status/1863166522710991159
And dang, that post with the video has been zapped.
Found it elsewhere.
Watch for about 3m starting here:
https://youtu.be/_b__MBqmLG0?si=0Jw-u1iIqFSkMh92&t=68
And all this time I thought “Death to America” was the most popular farewell endearment.
BEE bump...
Truth.
Fact check on the fact check!
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