Conservative satirical site Babylon Bee is getting serious about self-described “fact-checking” site Snopes’ ongoing “smear” campaign against them, which took a “disturbing” step last week in a largely fact-free “fact check” that went out of its way to attempt to portray the Babylon Bee as deliberately attempting to mislead readers into believing their stories are factual rather than satirical. In an announcement to its readers this week, the Babylon Bee revealed that Snopes’ actions are egregious enough that the Bee has gotten its lawyers involved, and they’re not kidding around.
“Last week, Snopes fact-checked us again,” the Bee told its readers Monday (h/t Ed Morrissey). “We’re pretty used to that. But this time, instead of merely rating the article ‘false,’ they questioned whether our work qualifies as satire, and even went so far as to suggest that we were deliberately deceiving our readers. Basically, they treated us as a source of intentionally misleading fake news, rather than as the legitimate, well-known satire publication that we are. This is a big deal.”
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