(LifeSiteNews) — Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon is exposing the duplicitous way social media companies use “fact checkers” to censure those who push back against the mainstream political narrative.
“Fact-checking [is] one of the methods employed by the lovers of censorship to guard the narrative, not the truth,” he said.
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Dillon made his remarks during an interview with Tucker Carlson Monday. Carlson, whose X show is now officially titled “The Tucker Carlson Encounter,” agreed with his assessment.
“The fact-checkers are clearly, at the very least, influenced by the intel agencies,” he said.
Dillon further revealed that his company has been “fact checked” dozens of times because liberals can’t stand that they are effective at their job.
“The fact-checkers are the way [social media companies get] out of the way and say, ‘we’re not the arbiters of truth… we’re not censoring you,’” he explained. “They fit in as a piece that allows them to basically have plausible deniability that they’re involved in censorship.”
“The Bee,” as it is colloquially referred to, is a satirical news website founded in 2016 that makes fun of absurdities in politics. Some of their headlines poke fun at conservatives but most of the time they mock woke liberals who can’t seem to stand anyone making light of their ridiculous accusations.
“Humor is the vehicle for truth delivery,” Dillon said. “They don’t like the fact that the narrative is being challenged in a way that’s effective. And so they have to shut you up.”
The Bee was banned from X (then Twitter) in March 2022 for naming Adam “Rachel” Levine it’s “Man of the Year.” The “award” came after USA Today named Levine, a divorced 66-year-old male who serves in the Biden administration, one of its “Women of the Year.” Twitter said the company violated its “hate speech” laws for “misgendering” Levine.
Dillon, a pro-life Evangelical, told Carlson that although it wasn’t a good business decision to not delete the tweet, he had a “moral objection” to doing so because they would have been complicit in admitting they promoted something fake and harmful.
Dillon also revealed that Elon Musk reached out to the company directly after purchasing X. He apparently told them that he wanted to re-instate them because humor should not be censored. Dillon said that while Facebook “throttles us so badly,” their reach on X under Musk is wide enough that it allows them to have an influence that is still significant.
Dillon and Carlson also discussed the depths to which the entertainment industry has sunk in recent years.
“So much of comedy is not funny today… just like the ‘fact-checkers,’ they are guardians of the narrative,” Dillon said. “You can tell who rules over you by who you’re not allowed to criticize or who you’re allowed to joke about.”
The duo made explicit mention of Levine but also of Dylan Mulvaney, a gender-confused social media influencer who caused a massive marketing headache for beer company Bud Light after promoting a rainbow-colored can earlier this year.
“These are our rulers, actually,” Carlson said of Levine and Mulvaney, the latter of whom acted like a victim after the fiasco despite being invited to red carpet events and winning sponsors.
“It has nothing to do with being offended,” Dillon stated. “It’s all fake outrage because they’ve learned that fake outrage can be used as a tool to bludgeon you into silence and submission.”