Furious at losing its title of “America’s Paper of Record” to this upstart, the NYT moves to quash the Babylon Bee
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It’s a small step from an “official source” like the NYT labeling a rival publication a far-right misinformation platform to the social media oligarchy banning it. See, eg, victims of the Southern Poverty Legal Center’s designating them “hate groups”.
The encouraging thing about this is that the Times and its fellow travelers are running scared.
I doubt that the mainstream media still employs editors and fact-checkers, but if they do, they’re surely 20-somethings who nod by labels like “far-right” and “misinformation” because they know what those mean. “It’s obvious, bro, like, look at that story the Bee ran about a bike race — I mean, totally untrue!”
