"I never thought of Twitter as a place for deep discussion," said Campbell. The conservative-leaning parody site, The Babylon Bee, was suspended by. While there are plenty who are supporting The Babylon Bee, as well as an equal number who have chastised the site and called out the tweet, it is unlikely a meaningful conversation will actually occur on social media. Hmm, a twelve-hour ban in response to deliberately hurtful content, sounds fair. 'We're told our account will be restored in 12 hours, but the countdown won't begin until we.
#BABYLON BEE BANNED TWITTER FREE#
The final takeaway is how this also shows that Twitter isn't really the place for deep discussions. Dillon, The Babylon Bee's CEO, shared the news of the temporary ban on his personal Twitter account. Seth Dillon, the CEO of the satire website The Babylon Bee, says Elon Musk reached out to the company to confirm it had been suspended from Twitter prior to his poll on free speech. Yet, in the process, even those who might not have known about the site certainly do now. The Babylon Bee may be punished – and as Dillon refuses to delete the tweet, it seems unlikely that the parody site will be allowed to post on Twitter again. "But in this case, it didn't really work out." "Twitter has tried to be transparent in what drives them to make these decisions," said Campbell. What is also notable is how Twitter attempted to use its policy to have the offending tweet removed, but in the process created a firestorm and put it in the spotlight. "I have to admit I've even been caught retweeting something from The Babylon Bee that I thought was real," Campbell explained on Monday. Campbell said that she can understand how difficult it has become to determine what is real news and what is misinformation or even disinformation on social media. In this particular case, the issue was more of hate speech than misinformation, but past stories from The Babylon Bee have been shared – often times as fact. In self-deprecating fashion, the site even posted a new story, " Babylon Bee Writers Struggling To Come Up With New Material After Twitter Bans 1 Of Their 2 Jokes." Many who rebuked the parody site also suggested it has just the one joke – poking fun at the transgender community – a fact that The Babylon Bee only further embraced. It seems to have a lot of stories that make fun of the transgender community." "We need more satire, but I question the motive of The Babylon Bee. "It is funny the things that can go viral," explained Susan Campbell, a former newspaper editor and distinguished lecturer at the University of New Haven.
It is unlikely that Twitter expected such a reaction. In addition to the attention the tweet has now received on Twitter, the news of The Babylon Bee's suspension has been covered by multiple news outlets.
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