{"id":563935,"date":"2021-06-14T20:36:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T00:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=563935"},"modified":"2021-06-14T20:36:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-15T00:36:57","slug":"we-pushed-back-hard-and-won-nyt-walks-back-smear-against-babylon-bee-after-legal-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-pushed-back-hard-and-won-nyt-walks-back-smear-against-babylon-bee-after-legal-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We Pushed Back Hard And Won\u2019: NYT Walks Back \u2018Smear\u2019 Against Babylon Bee After Legal Threat"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fwe-pushed-back-hard-and-won-nyt-walks-back-smear-against-babylon-bee-after-legal-threat%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=563935&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\/05\/GettyImages-82046046-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>The New York Times has issued a correction after referring to the Babylon Bee, a satire site, as a \u201cfar-right misinformation site.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Times issued the correction after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/babylon-bee-slams-new-york-times-for-defamatory-article-demands-retraction-over-misinformation-reference\">receiving<\/a> a letter from the Bee\u2019s legal counsel demanding a correction to the article. Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon said that the label the Times used was false and \u201cdefamatory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBig update here. The [New York Times] has responded to our demand letter by removing defamatory statements about us from their article,\u201d Dillon wrote Monday on Twitter. He shared a screenshot of an email from the senior counsel at the Times to the counsel at the Bee. The email said that the Times had corrected its article and removed references to the Bee as \u201cfar-right misinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI write in response to your letter of June 2, received by The Times on June 8. We have carefully reviewed the the [sic] concerns raised in your letter and, in response to those concerns, we have removed the reference to the Babylon Bee from the article and appended a correction,\u201d Times senior counsel Dana Green wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.5609756097561\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Big update here. The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@nytimes<\/a> has responded to our demand letter by removing defamatory statements about us from their article. Here&#8217;s their email to our counsel notifying us of the correction. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lv0eYo6NzK\">https:\/\/t.co\/lv0eYo6NzK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OLi5KzMzej\">pic.twitter.com\/OLi5KzMzej<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SethDillon\/status\/1404457263197310989?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Dillon explained the saga with the Times:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"26\">\n<p><em>Originally, the article said we were a far-right misinformation site. It pointed to us\u2014and only us\u2014as an example of a site that misuses the satire label to protect our presence on social media sites that would otherwise ban us for spreading fake stories.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We objected to this pretty strongly, so [Time reporter Mike Isaac] removed the sentence that said we trafficked in misinformation. In its place, he put an update that said we\u2019d feuded with [fact-checking site Snopes] and [Facebook] about whether we\u2019re misinformation or satire. But that wasn\u2019t true, either.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This latest correction, however, no longer mentions the Bee as an example of a far-right misinformation site that pretends to be doing satire. And it notes that neither Snopes nor Facebook maintain that we\u2019re misinformation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is huge. The NY Times was using misinformation to smear us as being a source of it. That\u2019s not merely ironic; it\u2019s malicious. We pushed back hard and won. Thanks to everyone who voiced and offered their support. We don\u2019t have to take this nonsense lying down. Remember that.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The fight between the Times and the Bee began on March 19 when the Times published an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/19\/technology\/political-cartoonists-facebook-satire-irony.html\">article<\/a> titled \u201cFor Political Cartoonists, the Irony Was That Facebook Didn\u2019t Recognize Irony.\u201d In the article, the Times referred to the Bee as a \u201cfar-right misinformation site\u201d that \u201csometimes trafficked in misinformation under the guise of satire.\u201d That reference has now been removed and a correction posted to the bottom of the article that says:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"13\">\n<p><em>An earlier version of this article referred imprecisely to the Babylon Bee, a right-leaning satirical website, and a controversy regarding the handling of its content by Facebook and the fact-checking site Snopes. While both Facebook and Snopes previously have classified some Babylon Bee articles as misinformation, rather than satire, they have dropped those claims, and the Babylon Bee denies that it has trafficked in misinformation.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/exclusive-babylon-bee-team-talks-nyt-retraction-life-as-media-target\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EXCLUSIVE: Babylon Bee Team Talks NYT Retraction, Life As Media Target<\/a><\/strong><\/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. 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