Babylon Bee Founder Calls Out Twitter After He is Locked Out of ‘Not the Bee’ Account
By Movieguide® Staff
Twitter proved once again that its community guidelines and policies, which the company allegedly put in place to protect its online community, allow them to censor any user with whom they disagree.
Babylon Bee founder Adam Ford announced on Oct. 25 that the social media platform shut down the official account for his comedy news site, Not the Bee.
Twitter asked that Ford delete a tweet before access to his account would be granted.
The headline under fire reads: “Twitter suspended a sitting congressman for calling transgender HHS official Rachel Levine — who is a biological male — a ‘man’.”
The article addresses Twitter’s recent decision to ban Rep. Jim Banks because he “misgendered” transgender Assistant Secretary of Health, Rachel Levine.
“I had to delete the tweet to regain access to our Twitter account,” Ford told Faithwire. “I don’t see how this tweet violates any rules.”
Ford later showed screenshots of Twitter’s demands, which required him to delete the tweet.
“Your account has been locked,” the message read, according to Faithwire. “We have determined that you have violated the Twitter rules, so you’ll need to wait some time before using Twitter again.”
Twitter has locked @Not_the_Bee's account. No idea why because they didn't say.
Stay tuned. pic.twitter.com/iU8bh1ZtZQ
— Adam Ford (@Adam4d) October 26, 2021
“I will be pursuing this and looking for an explanation from Twitter,” Ford added.
This is not the first example of the larger Babylon Bee brand receiving backlash for its comedic and satirical content.
Movieguide® previously reported:
Popular email marketing service Mailchimp temporarily suspended The Babylon Bee’s account for “violating our standard terms of use and acceptable use policy.”
Despite the general accusation, The Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon said that he received no specific examples of how his faith-based company infringed on Mailchimp’s guidelines.
However, Dillon revealed that after a few days, Mailchimp lifted the suspension after claiming it was merely “a mistake.”
“[It’s] funny how those mistakes always go one way,” Dillon told Faithwire.
Months before Mailchimp’s suspension of The Babylon Bee, the company had released new guidelines which warned their clients of possible censorship.
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