Making Staff up While Black

[dann]

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And this is The Babylon Bee modernizing (but not in the slightest improving) the anti-evolutionary myth of the blind watchmaker: Apple IPhone Evolved Naturally Over Billions Of Years, Experts Now Believe

Aren't Darwinists stoooopid!?

 

[Ziggurat]

It doesn't matter. Snopes' MO is to fact check claims when enough people have pinged their inbox asking if such-and-such as written here-and-there is true or not.

This:

The Babylon Bee has managed to fool readers with its brand of satire in the past. This particular story was especially confusing for some readers, however, as it closely mirrored the events of a genuine news story, with the exception of the website’s changing the location from “Publix” to the more controversial Chick-Fil-A.

...is a perfectly legitimate reason to extend their remarks beyond a simple "it's satire, end of story". The only "beclowning" in evidence is yours, for this bizarrely rabid set against Snopes'....I don't even know. What you perceive to be their "tone", apparently?....in their otherwise completely accurate fact-check.

Snopes manages to screw up even their fact check. The location was NOT the only significant change. In the BB story, there is no confrontation at all. The woman imagines it completely. In the real story, there was a confrontation, just two different versions of how it played out. And their satire version isn't "particularly confusing" at all, at least not to anyone with half a clue. Evidently that doesn't include Snopes.

Oh, and this isn't the only time Snopes has decided to fact check BB. Their previous effort was even more laughable.

 

[Checkmite]

Their previous effort was even more laughable.

The totality of said "previous effort":

Although it should have been obvious that the Babylon Bee piece was just a spoof of the ongoing political brouhaha over alleged news media “bias” and “fake news,” some readers missed that aspect of the article and interpreted it literally. But the site’s footer gives away the Babylon Bee’s nature by describing it as “Your Trusted Source For Christian News Satire,” and the site has been responsible for a number of other (usually religious-themed) spoofs that have been mistaken for real news articles.

What is false, misleading, or badly checked about this?

 

[dann]

For some (obvious) reason, Ziggurat feels the need to present this as if Snopes is fact-checking The Babylon Bee. They're not. They are fact checking stories that were first published (made up) by The Babylon Bee but have now taken on a life of their own because alt-right and other internet trolls are spreading them online as if they didn't come from a right-wing Christian mediocre satire site.
That was also the case with the AOC satire piece I linked to in post 120:

In mid-April 2019, an image supposedly showing U.S. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez guessing that the cost of an item was “free” during an appearance on the daytime television game show “The Price is Right” started circulating on social media:
This is not a genuine photograph of Ocasio-Cortez on the show. This image was created for a satirical article that was originally published by The Babylon Bee.
Did U.S. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Repeatedly Guess ‘Free’ on TV Show ‘The Price is Right?’ (Snopes, April 15, 2019)

They are obviously not fact checking The Babylon Bee. On the contrary, as part of their fact checking of a social-media meme, they reference the Bee as the source, but Ziggurat joins forces with the alt-right trolls and pretends that Snopes is fact-checking the Bee. In post 120 I linked to one of the sites where the AOC story is presented as fact! And its alt-right readers believe it.
This is pure and simple lying. And please notice that I am now fact checking you, Ziggurat, and not the The Babylon Bee, just in case you are unable to tell the difference.


ETA: Notice what happens to comments that point out that the AOC meme is a lie (at the bottom of the page): low rated comment (click to show). That is very similar to what you are doing, Ziggurat.