EXCLUSIVE: Babylon Bee’s CEO Pushes Back Against Big Tech Bullying
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EXCLUSIVE: Babylon Bee’s CEO Pushes Back Against Big Tech Bullying

Christian Toto

Seth Dillon oversees one of the web’s funniest destinations, but there’s an edge to his voice that’s hardly comic. Dillon, the CEO of The Babylon Bee, is at war with social media. Again. It’s an odd place for a humor site to be, but it’s in sync with the current wave of Big Tech bullying.

Dillon says the trouble began two years ago when Facebook aligned with third-party fact checkers like Snopes to battle misinformation on the platform. That seemingly noble stance led to Snopes and, by extension, Facebook, labeling a satirical Bee article as “false.”

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