LMAO at this "fake news" from the Babylon Bee

I confess to not having heard of the Babylon Bee until I read, earlier this week, that the notoriously left-leaning "fact-checker", Snopes, is trying to shut the website down. In "No Joke: Babylon Bee Sics Lawyers On Snopes Over 'Fact Checks'", HotAir reports that Snopes has attempted to exploit its position as a Facebook partner to "deplatform" the "Christian news satire" site.

Apparently, Snopes doesn't know the difference between satire and "fake news", and rated a Bee piece "false", prompting FB to threaten BB with limitations and demonetization. When the folks at Bee pointed out that their work is not intended to be taken seriously -- indeed, the legend "Fake news you can trust" appears at the top of every page -- and after some media attention shed light on the problem, Facebook apologized for their handling of the matter and admitted that satire is, errr, not the same as fake news.

That would be the end of it, if it weren't for Snopes' role as a sometime Facebook gatekeeper. That role gives Snopes a significant amount of power over a major distribution channel for independent publishers, not just the Bee. The threat of malicious deplatforming in that context is real, and Snopes' disparate treatment of the Bee as opposed to The Onion certainly makes it look personal and biased against conservative satire.

Intrigued, I visited the Babylon Bee website today, and have bookmarked it for perusal every day for the rest of my years. Here follows an example of the Bee's sense of humour.

Disaster At Seesaw Art Installation As Obese American Children

Catapult Mexicans Over The Border

What? You want me to repost the text as well? Just click on the headline and you can read it for yourself, straight from the Bee's, errr, proboscis. Enjoy.