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New York Times Issues Correction After Claiming Satire Website Babylon Bee ‘Trafficked in Misinformation’
Epoch Times ^ | 06/14/2021 | ZACHARY STIEBER

Posted on 06/15/2021 2:57:40 AM PDT by SES1066

The New York Times recently updated a piece on Facebook’s moderation of satire, removing a claim that Babylon Bee “trafficked in misinformation.”

The New York Times, in the middle of a court battle over allegedly defamatory articles, which, according to a judge, said reporters failed to note that they inserted opinions, made the update and issued a correction after receiving a demand for a retraction over claims about the Babylon Bee, a satire website.

(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: facebook; factcheck; internet; libel; media; msm; newyorktimes; satire; snopes
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Also from the article; All reference to the Bee was removed, except for in the correction. “An earlier version of this article referred imprecisely to the Babylon Bee, a right-leaning satirical website, and a controversy regarding the handling of its content by Facebook and the fact-checking site Snopes,” the NY Times said in the correction.

Do note the inclusion by the NYT of the description of the BB as 'a right-leaning satirical website'. Should one search the NYT archives for reference(s) to 'left-leaning' in ANYTHING? Probably not, to the NYT, LEFTism is the water they swim in, in other words, normality!

1 posted on 06/15/2021 2:57:41 AM PDT by SES1066
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To: SES1066

Mad Magazine, Slick Times, In Living Color, Mad TV and SNL, however, are canceled for good.


2 posted on 06/15/2021 3:15:11 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all the time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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To: SES1066

Someone made the comment in a BB video on YT that the Bee is the closest thing we have to a legitimate press in America. :-)


3 posted on 06/15/2021 3:37:06 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: Leep
...the Bee is the closest thing we have to a legitimate press in America It definitely is the closest thing we have to legitimate satire in the USA.
4 posted on 06/15/2021 3:47:06 AM PDT by Sir_Humphrey ( I wiIl not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own!)
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To: SES1066

Thank you, Captain Obvious.


5 posted on 06/15/2021 4:02:03 AM PDT by rwa265
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To: SES1066

The New York Times traffics in misinformation as a regular matter of business.


6 posted on 06/15/2021 4:10:36 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: SES1066

The NYT should be renamed the Babylon Flea. Or better yet, the Babylon Dung Beetle.


7 posted on 06/15/2021 4:17:29 AM PDT by week 71
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To: SES1066

...Meanwhile, the NYT has a history of trafficking in genocide.


8 posted on 06/15/2021 4:28:59 AM PDT by cockroach_magoo
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To: SES1066
The New York Times Has Been Ridiculous for a Long Time

Why the NYT Must Die

9 posted on 06/15/2021 5:39:08 AM PDT by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
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To: SES1066
"If anyone traffics in misinformation it is we, the NYT"

Mark Twain wrote: If you don't read the papers you are uninformed; if you do read the papers you are misinformed.

10 posted on 06/15/2021 6:23:06 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Identify As Vaccinated)
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To: SES1066

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q8vDQaAYaQg

Satire is one step from insurrection against the State. Just the tip of the iceberg.

YouTube clip is from the movie Das Leben die Anderen. It presents an unvarnished view of life in the DDR.


11 posted on 06/15/2021 6:30:36 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (Antifa=BLM=RevCom=CPUSA = CCP=Democratic Party )
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To: SES1066

NEWS FLASH: Communists Don’t Have a Sense of Humor!


12 posted on 06/15/2021 7:20:36 AM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: SES1066

Can’t wait for the Bee to respond to this.


13 posted on 06/15/2021 7:24:22 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( PRAY FOR OUR NATION. I will never be a peaceful slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

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14 posted on 06/15/2021 9:10:30 AM PDT by bitt ( A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.)
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To: SES1066; Chode; GOPJ

Maybe the NYT writers are computer programs instead of humans. Dumb computer programs. On Star Trek TNG the android “Data” was at least trying to understand humor.


15 posted on 06/15/2021 10:33:38 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: SES1066

What isn’t satire but is equally difficult to believe is that this lunacy ever ended up in court at all.


16 posted on 06/15/2021 10:41:11 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: SES1066

The Bee’s gonna have fun over this one...


17 posted on 06/15/2021 10:41:54 AM PDT by GOPJ (Rape isn't penis violence. Arson isn't fire violence. Murder isn't gun violence. CriminalsRviolence )
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

AI would be more convincing


18 posted on 06/15/2021 11:14:15 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: Chode
AI would be more convincing

"AI" would be accurate if it meant "Acute Idiocy."

19 posted on 06/15/2021 11:34:27 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

yup


20 posted on 06/15/2021 3:02:44 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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