Concha: The New York Times is ‘promoting the culture of cancellation’
Fox News contributor Joe Concha reacts to The New York Times being accused of celebrating the culture of cancellation by highlighting a video of a teenage girl using racial slur, which led to her being forced out of college.
The popular satirical site The Babylon Bee accused The New York Times of “trafficking incorrect information” after the Gray Lady reported that the site publishes false information “under the guise of satire”, when the site openly admits that it is satire.
The Times made the claims in an article, “For political cartoonists, the irony was that Facebook did not recognize the irony”, which was published on Friday. The report detailed how Facebook had trouble identifying the satire when policing its website for bad political content.
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“Babylon Bee, a right-wing website, sometimes trafficked misinformation under the guise of satire,” wrote Times reporter Mike Issac.
Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon criticized the Times for pushing “false and defamatory” rhetoric about his company.
The popular satirical site The Babylon Bee accused The New York Times of “trafficking incorrect information” after the Gray Lady reported that the site publishes false information “under the guise of satire”, when the site openly admits that it is satire.
“The claim that we are pretending to be a satire so that we can spread misinformation with impunity on social media is false and defamatory,” Dillon told Fox News. “And it is the falsehood of the statement that highlights a great irony here: it is, in fact, The New York Times that is trafficking incorrect information, and they are doing so under the guise of ‘journalism’.”
The New York Times did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Babylon Bee, which is sometimes described as a conservative response to The Onion, made headlines on Monday, including: “Mexico installs stairs to keep Biden out”, “It is unclear how bad the mass shooting is until that the authorities release details of everyone’s skin color “,” What is your gender? Take the test “and” Biden visits the southern border to play ‘Despacito’ for migrant children in cages “.
Last year, CNN reporter Donie O’Sullivan raised the alarm after an article by Babylon Bee that satirized the Democrats’ reaction to the assassination of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani was posted on Facebook more than 500,000 times.
“To put this in perspective, this is the same number of engagements that the main stories of the NY Times and CNN on Facebook had last week,” O’Sullivan tweeted. “Many people who share this ‘satirical’ story on Facebook are unaware that it is satire.”
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“Having a notice buried somewhere on your website that says it is ‘satire’ seems like a good way to get around many of the changes that Facebook has made to reduce the spread of clickbait and misinformation,” explained O’Sullivan before pointing to the Facebook users whose comments suggested they believed in the satirical play.
The CNN reporter was beaten on Twitter, including by Babylon Bee founder Adam Ford. Bee then published an article with the title: “CNN attacks Babylon Bee: ‘The Internet is only big enough for a fake news site'”.
According to the joke’s “report,” several CNN reporters complained that their news was “much more fake” than Bee’s.
Dillon thinks the Times essentially took a page from the CNN manual.
“This is a recurring problem. The continued mischaracterization of our website in the liberal media is a blatant attempt to discredit and deplatify us,” said Dillon. “If they can convince social media that we are abusing the satire label, they can shut us down. It’s that simple.”
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Dillon feels that “the whole system is manipulated to support” the efforts of liberal activists and news organizations who wish to silence conservative voices.
“Wikipedia, for example, only allows ‘trusted sources’ to determine how a website is characterized. And guess what sources they consider to be trustworthy? The New York Times … CNN, etc.,” said Dillon. “Sites that unabashedly characterize us are considered to be trustworthy and quotable, while sites that appreciate and defend us are considered to be ‘unreliable’.”
Joseph A. Wulfsohn of Fox News contributed to this report.