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“#Babylon Bee demands retraction from NYT over ‘misinformation’ label<\/strong>”
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The Babylon Bee has demanded a retraction from The New York Times for referencing the conservative satirical outlet in an article about how Facebook<\/a> deals with far-right misinformation sites.<\/p>\n

\u201cYesterday our counsel sent a letter to @nytimes demanding a retraction. We took this action because their article was\u2014and remains\u2014defamatory,\u201d Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon wrote on Twitter<\/a> Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Times article, published on March 19<\/a>, was titled, \u201cFor Political Cartoonists, the Irony Was That Facebook Didn\u2019t Recognize Irony.\u201d<\/p>\n

It originally stated that, \u201cIn 2019 and 2020,\u00a0Facebook often dealt with far-right misinformation sites that used \u2018satire\u2019 claims to protect their presence on the platform,\u201d citing Emerson T. Brooking, a resident fellow for the think tank Atlantic Council.<\/p>\n

The article went on to state that, \u201cFor example, The Babylon Bee, a right-leaning site, sometimes trafficked in misinformation under the guise of satire.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Yesterday our counsel sent a letter to @nytimes<\/a> demanding a retraction. We took this action because their article was\u2014and remains\u2014defamatory.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) June 3, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

After being called out by Dillon, the Times updated the story on March 22 to instead read, \u201cThe Babylon Bee, a right-leaning satirical site, has feuded<\/a> with Facebook and the fact-checking site Snopes<\/a> over whether the site published misinformation or satire.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Dillon said the update was \u201cwas no better than the original.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have not, in fact, feuded with Snopes as to whether we publish satire or misinformation,\u201d he wrote on Twitter<\/a>. \u201cSnopes retracted that insinuation with an editors\u2019 note saying it was never their intent to call our motives into question.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dillon added: \u201cIt\u2019s therefore misleading and malicious to characterize that incident as a feud, as if Snopes ever openly stood by the claim that we are misinformation and not satire.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe cannot stand idly by as they act with malice to misrepresent us in ways that jeopardize our business,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Reps for the Times didn\u2019t immediately return a request for comment on Friday.<\/p>\n

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