Inside The Babylon Bee’s Fight For Satire

Federalist Radio Hour

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🗓️ 23 March 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon joins Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to give an inside look into the Bee's fight for satire and recap Twitter's recent censorship campaign against the popular website and its creators.

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0:00.0	We're back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
0:20.1	I'm Emily Gisinski, Culture Editor here at the Federalist.
0:22.5	As always, you can email the show at radioatthefederalist.com.
0:25.2	Follow us on Twitter at FDRLST.
0:27.3	Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcasts as well.
0:30.9	Today we feel very lucky to have a slice of the time and a busy week for Seth Dillon,
0:35.3	who's CEO of the Babylon Bee.
0:37.2	Many of you are favorite publication.
0:39.0	Seth, thank you so much for joining us.
0:40.4	Thanks for having me.
0:41.4	Yeah, and thanks for joining us in the midst of this unfolding bizarre, like Orwellian
0:47.6	dystopia that you guys are dealing with.
0:49.2	I want to start actually by reading one of your headlines.
0:52.0	Taliban spokesman finally banned from Twitter after sharing Babylon Bee headline.
0:57.7	Could you walk listeners through exactly what you guys have been dealing with over the
1:00.6	last few days?
1:01.6	I don't even know how you found that headline.
1:03.1	It was on Twitter.
1:04.9	Are we allowed to post our headlines on Twitter?
1:06.8	I did see that one on Twitter.
1:09.2	Yeah, it's been a little nuts.
1:11.4	We expected this at some point.
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