EXCLUSIVE: Babylon Bee Team Talks NYT Retraction, Life As Media Target

Facing legal action, The New York Times backed away Monday from its claims that the Babylon Bee, a satire outlet, traffics in misinformation.

The Times’ original story, published March 19, labeled the Bee a “far-right misinformation site.” On Monday, the Times removed any reference to the Bee and added this 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. While both Facebook and Snopes previously have classified some Babylon Bee articles as misinformation, rather than satire, they have dropped those claims, and the Babylon Bee denies that it has trafficked in misinformation.”