#Twitter suspends babylon bee series#

On Sunday evening, Jessica O’Donnell of The Blaze shared the photo used by The Babylon Bee, tweeting, “This tweet has been suspended. That original tweet, which was posted on March 15, largely went under the radar - yet when news broke of the parody site’s account being suspended, the tweet suddenly went viral. If Twitter’s goal was to remove harmful content, it backtracked spectacularly. On Monday morning, Dillon further added that, while the offending tweet remains live, Babylon Bee is unable to post anything new.

#Twitter suspends babylon bee series#

In a series of follow-up tweets, Dillon explained that the account would be restored in 12 hours, but that the countdown would not begin until the tweet was deleted, which he declined to do.

On Sunday evening, The Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon tweeted, “I have just received notice that we have been removed from our account for ‘hateful conduct’.” The story was apparently a reaction USA TODAY Naming Levine, who serves as the US assistant secretary of health for the US Department of Health and Human Services, last week as one of its “Women of the Year.” The conservative-leaning parody site, The Babylon Bee, was suspended by Twitter for 12 hours after it named transgender government official Rachel Levine as “Man of the Year”. The issue was more hate speech than misinformation, but back stories from The Babylonian Bee, shared – often as a matter of fact