The Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon rebuked the rampant censorship deployed against his satirical news outlet under Twitter, the social media platform Elon Musk has transformed into X.
During a Wednesday interview with PragerU CEO Marissa Streit on the Real Talk podcast, Dillon reflected on his experience taking a stand against the Twitter censorship regime. He expressed his hope that by taking a public stance against censorship at the time he “would also embolden other people to do the same thing.” He added, “Maybe other people would stop deleting their posts and stop censoring themselves because of the refusal to tell the joke in the first place.”
Dillon continued, “If we had done that and censored ourselves that’s every bit as bad or worse than the hard censorship where they take your content down.”
He also recalled Twitter’s persistent censorship against the newly established Babylon Bee and their viral posts. “The initial one that really got the first threat from one of these social media platforms, saying you’re going to be de-platformed if you keep doing this, was a stupid joke that we posted about how CNN had purchased an industrial-size washing machine to spin the news in before publishing it,” he said.
Calling back to when the business was handed off to him, Dillon shared that The Babylon Bee founder Adam Ford expressed that “censorship was his major concern” and how fact-checks were hindering their ability to reach an audience.
Ford’s fears of censorship were not unwarranted, MRC’s exclusive Censortrak database found that Dillon, The Babylon Bee, its sister site Not the Bee and a few people affiliated with the sites have been censored no fewer than 30 times.
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