“When you try to suppress something you draw more attention to it.”Įven a few of the website’s critics concede that the content often makes them laugh. “It’s the Streisand effect,” Dillon says. The more critics rail about The Babylon Bee, the larger its audience gets. And The New York Times printed a correction in June after publishing an article that said the Bee “trafficked in misinformation.” “We rate this claim satire, based on our research,” the USA Today article concluded. Take, for example, USA Today’s fact-checking of The Babylon Bee’s article that said the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals had overturned Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s death. He can get a crowd to laugh simply by ticking off the times that The Babylon Bee has been “fact-checked” as if it were the nation’s newspaper of record. To Dillon, these accusations are just punchlines in waiting. The Babylon Bee, too, has been accused of using its platform for nefarious goals such as propagating hate speech disguised as humor or malevolently spreading “fake news.” Russia, of course, is said to be behind a relentless tide of disinformation that floods the internet on topics ranging from the 2020 election to COVID-19 vaccines. But it’s Seth Dillon who is the majority owner - not the Russians, as one critic has jokingly suggested. Ron DeSantis and actor Chris Pratt.Ī father of two who lives in Florida, Dillon is part of a team that includes his younger brother, Dan, the company’s chief technology officer, and editor-in-chief Kyle Mann.įord, The Babylon Bee’s founder, still owns a share of the company, as do Dan Dillon and Mann. His emerging celebrity was evident at this month’s National Conservatism Convention, where a long line of young people waited to shake his hand, and also on Instagram, where Dillon, posting as is pictured with people that include Florida Gov. Along the way, Dillon, 38, has seen his own profile rise as he has stepped up to challenge what he considers censorship of conservatives by social-media titans.
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