After dropping out after Iowa caucus, Vivek Ramaswamy offered his support to Trump. A piece on Babylon Bee – a popular right-wing conservative parody website – claimed that Trump had offered Ramaswamy a very important cabinet position: running the White House 7-Eleven store. We're going to bring convenience back to the West Wing!” ScreenGrab of The Babylon Bee article It …
Elon Musk has praised Greta Thunberg about her 'brand awareness' after the once-banned Twitter account the Babylon Bee sledged the young climate activist. In a post to Twitter on Friday the Babylon Bee posted an article with a picture of Thunberg, 19, on the front of a thermostat Elon Musk has praised Greta Thunberg about her 'brand awareness' after the …
New Delhi: Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk on Saturday revealed the microblogging platform's new policy pertaining to account suspensions and restricting negative tweets as he announced lifting the bans on some suspended accounts. Jordan Peterson’s Twitter account was banned in June after he tweeted about the gender transition procedure that actor Elliot Page underwent. The Twitter account was banned after …
Satire has been bothering the right more than usual lately. Then we learned that Donald Trump had actually asked advisers and lawyers to investigate whether the Department of Justice could probe or mitigate sources of satirical late-night comedy, like "Saturday Night Live," that made fun of him. As Asawin Suebsaeng and Adam Rawnsley reported for the Daily Beast, "According to …
On June 3, a conservative news satire website called the Babylon Bee demanded a retraction from the New York Times, threatening a defamation lawsuit over a March article that claimed the site “trafficked in misinformation under the guise of satire.” On June 10, the Times corrected the story, and was right to do so. The story at the heart of …
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