• body_by_make@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    The Babylon Bee also makes articles under the guise of satire in an attempt to take advantage of this very fact. They’re basically a misinformation source that calls themselves satire because they know their base will take them seriously, but they can deny it. They’re basically Fox News calling themselves the onion.

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      5 months ago

      Yep, they are not satire at all, recently a video from them popped up in my feed, that’s about gender reassignment surgery, there was nothing satirical or funny about it

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      Entertainment. They said they can’t be sued because no one would take them seriously because they aren’t news, they are “entertainment.” They won.

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        5 months ago

        That was fucking ridiculous. As if there’s not ample evidence that millions of people take Fox News seriously.