{"id":122653,"date":"2021-02-09T18:57:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T23:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=122653"},"modified":"2021-02-09T19:27:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T00:27:35","slug":"elon-musk-trolls-the-onion-by-promoting-the-babylon-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-trolls-the-onion-by-promoting-the-babylon-bee\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Trolls The Onion By Promoting The Babylon Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-trolls-the-onion-by-promoting-the-babylon-bee%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=122653&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Musk.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Billionaire and Tesla founder Elon Musk continued his wave of populist eccentricity, trolling the news satire site The Onion by promoting its more conservative competitor The Babylon Bee.<\/p>\n<p>This past Saturday, the more left-leaning satire site The Onion tweeted a fake news article, titled \u201cThe Habits Of Silicon Valley\u2019s Most Powerful Fortune 500 CEOs,\u201d that featured Elon Musk among other Big Tech giants like Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and Jeff Bezos. In response, Musk recommended people check out The Babylon Bee.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cHave you read<\/span> <span class=\"r-18u37iz\"><a class=\"css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\" role=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBabylonBee\" data-focusable=\"true\">@TheBabylonBee<\/a><\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">? It\u2019s great!!\u201d he tweeted.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Have you read <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheBabylonBee?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheBabylonBee<\/a>? It\u2019s great!!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1358176340734738434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A quick glance at the comments revealed that Musk\u2019s reply earned mostly positive responses with a few negatives in between. His tweet followed his promotion of the recent GameStop stock surge where the Reddit forum WallStreetBets created a short squeeze on billionaire hedge fund managers by driving up the price of GameStop (GME) stock.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, the Babylon Bee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/satire-site-looking-into-legal-action-against-snopes-over-fact-checking\">recruited legal representation after<\/a> the fact-checking site Snopes published an allegedly defamatory piece accusing the outlet of using satire as a \u201cruse\u201d to deliberately mislead its readers \u2014 a charge that Snopes never once leveled against the openly satirical site The Onion.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with The Daily Wire\u2019s Christian Toto <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nothing-funny-about-facebooks-serial-attacks-on-the-babylon-bee\">recently<\/a>, Seth Dillon, The Babylon Bee CEO, explained how Facebook threatened to demonetize the site\u2019s page it did not censor one of its articles poking fun at Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Bee piece\u2019s headline, \u201cSenator Hirono Demands ACB Be Weighed Against A Duck To See If She Is A Witch\u201d referenced a classic Monty Python routine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, she\u2019s a witch alright, just look at her!\u201d the Bee fictitiously quoted&nbsp;Hirono. \u201cJust look at the way she\u2019s dressed and how she\u2019s so much prettier and smarter than us! She\u2019s in league with Beelzebub himself, I just know it! We must burn her!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bee satire triggered Facebook\u2019s algorithms, a process that eventually gave way to a manual content review.<\/p>\n<p>The results?<\/p>\n<p>The story \u201cincites violence,\u201d and Facebook pulled the article from the Bee\u2019s page on its own.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After battling with Facebook back and forth, the article was eventually allowed to stay and the social media giant dismissed the incident as a \u201cmistake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always a mistake,\u201d Dillon said. \u201cThey\u2019re reaching, stretching to make us in violation of their community standards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s promotion of The Babylon Bee comes after he rocked the halls of the Twitterverse last year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/elon-musk-cancel-cancel-culture\">when he said<\/a>&nbsp;\u201ctake the red pill\u201d and \u201ccancel cancel culture\u201d with no further clarification.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his infamous \u201cred pill\u201d tweet, Musk had been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/elon-musk-pushes-reopening-in-series-of-tweets-free-america-now\">urging governors<\/a>&nbsp;to reopen the economy and even went as far to call the coronavirus lockdown orders \u201cfascist.\u201d On Friday, Musk also tweeted that he opposes another round of economic stimulus while expressing his support for Universal Basic Income (UBI).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a reminder, I\u2019m in *favor* of universal basic income,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/elon-musk-another-government-stimulus-package-is-not-in-the-best-interests-of-the-people-2020-07-24\">he tweeted<\/a>. \u201cGoal of government should be to maximize the happiness of the people. Giving each person money allows them to decide what meets their needs, rather than the blunt tool of legislation, which creates self-serving special interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnother government stimulus package is not in the best interests of the people imo,\u201d he continued. \u201cThese are jammed to gills with special interests earmarks. If we do a stimulus at all, it should just be direct payments to consumers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire and Tesla founder Elon Musk continued his wave of populist eccentricity, trolling the news satire site The Onion by promoting its more conservative competitor The Babylon Bee. 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