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The Babylon Bee gets Snoped

By Jim on Fri, 03/02/18
Society & Culture
Babylon Bee
Snopes
CNN
Fake News

BB: CNN Purchases Industrial-Sized Washing Machine To Spin News Before Publication

Snopes: FALSE: CNN invested in an industrial-sized washing machine to help their journalists and news anchors spin the news before publication

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NewFacebook Threatened Babylon Bee Over This

Fri, 03/02/18

An article about it written by my editor:

https://pjmedia.com/faith/facebook-threatens-babylon-bee-cnn-satire-rep…

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NewSmiling...

Fri, 03/02/18

….because Snopes characterized an industrial washing machine as “heavy machinery”, which might come as something of a surprise to the folks at Caterpillar, Deere, and Kubota!

Really, Snopes ought to come up with a “Satire” flag when people (perhaps at Facebook?) fall for this kind of thing.

Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.

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NewI don't know what's funnier

Fri, 03/02/18

…BB or the reactions from people who don’t get it.

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