The 12 Funniest Times Facebook Fact Checked The Babylon Bee
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- Is Mark Zuckerberg bursting out of his reptilian shell to become a full-fledged meat-enjoying, MMA-enthused, free-speech advocate? Here are the 12 funniest fact-checks when Facebook wasn't so friendly to free speech and used fact-checkers to fact check jokes.
#comedy #satire #meta
"Snopes is run by Artificial Intelligence"
Fact check: False. Snopes is run entirely without intelligence.
Oohh, that's why it spelt Shops wrong?
Natural Stupidity?
Or artificial unintelligence.
A.I.: Applied Idiocy
GIGO: Garbage in, garbage out.
Dangit, you guys have some good ones lol
“Police attempt to arrest Babylon Bee for making jokes but fail to apprehend the subject”
More like "failed to comprehend the subject"
@@CurrentlyDuck1it was a bad joke that didn’t work and you managed to make it worse.
@@user-bz5yk1eo4e no need to thank me.
@@CurrentlyDuck1sadly, neither did you 😅
@@user-bz5yk1eo4ei guess it was a bad joke, but it was close! I’ve gotta give the OP credit for a good try
"California considering tax on breathing" - Babylon Bee.
"Shoot, they're onto us, now we'll have to wait" - Gavin Newsom
Oh no, Gavin wouldn't wait. He'd just introduce legislation to redefine something already taxable to include breathing.
Are they going to fact check the Lorax movie?
It's not so far-fetched. Maybe a CO2 tax on exhaling.
A CO2 tax is a tax on breathing. I've been telling activists for a long time to do their part.
@@dearoldbiddy1363Yep. He’d immediately criticize anybody who disagreed with this new tax as a racist.
I only breathe in. Never out. Because I respect the planet.
Winner.
Thanks!
@ Join me
So eco-friendly!
@@BigMikeRuinedBrokebackBarack I'm thinking about buying a Prius
The Babylon Bee should make up it's own "Fact Check department" to "Fact Check" its own satire.
or CNN
I think they kind of do, the also have Not The Bee
Bb should make their own fact checking where they just repeat the most outlandish true news.
To bee, or not to bee, and that's a fact Jack.
Reminds me of Kierkegaard who would publish an article under one name, and then publish another article under another name explaining why everything in the first article was completely silly, and then a third under yet another name adding things that neither 1 nor 2 seemed to understand, and around and around.
I think Joe Rogan explained it well. He said Zuck has taken up martial arts, which involves hard work.
He said once you do hard work you automatically become more of a conservative.
Being around men who aren't completely devoid of any testosterone helps too.
I don’t know much about Martial Arts, but I also assume they don’t teach victimhood.
Not everyone. Many of them are whiny little britches.
I still don't trust him. Do you?
Eating red meat heals your brain. Healed brains start using logic and morals leading to an irresistible desire to do what is right, ie become a conservative!
Sarcasm doesn't work on people who have no sense of humor
That would be the left
Yeah sure it doesn't!
Or common sense
this
Sarcasm doesn't work on people who have no sense of reality.
I suspect that there are a fair number of people who really don't get the difference between "facts that a true" and "narratives that support my ideology", to the point that they look at the satire of the BB and assume the BB is doing what they would be doing.
How did we survive before fact checking? Oh, I remember, we figured it out
All through the 90s the saying was, "Don't believe everything you see on the internet." People have forgotten.
I would just ask an old person but now I am one. I don't know what to do. 😮
I think it took me 2 or 3 fact checks to realize that they were not real fact checks, but leftist propaganda. At least in my country.
So nice to read the comments of those who remember the freedom of the internet in the 90s. "Buyer beware." We seem to have forgotten that, along with Smokey the Bear.
Please there are people with no Critical Thinking and needed to be told what to think... LOL
Fact checking is Communism..
"Snopes Celebrates First Ever Accurate Fact Check"
That would definitely get fact checked
Fact Checkers: the board game where the pieces can ONLY move to the LEFT!!!!!
Somebody needs to make this. Lol.
Brilliant!
I choose the Zoolander piece for the advantage
Underrated comment =)
Perfect analogy. 😂
14:54 "Because it does make the joke at least three times funnier."
*Fact Check:*
There have been at least two occasions when the fact check only make the joke *2.8 times funnier.*
My sources say 2.441 times. You need to check your facts!
(Lol)
You both need to check your facts my sources say "
your computer has run into a fatal error
34%"
Fact-checking awesome satire is priceless (or at least 10X).
"Fact checkers defunded..."
...and nothing of value was lost.
God bless the Babylon Bee crew... always there when we need them! 👍
Amen.
Getting sarcasm and satire is basically an IQ test
Sure, but I had to double-check to find out that there really *is* a "Joel Osteen Cube"...
It really is…..
Hey, you're being sarcastic, right? RIGHT? I can't tell.
@@sandor2960 iQ test? Is that a fact?
Totally agree. The phrase “that went over your head” was coined for this very situation!
Stop blaming Grandma! I am a grandma and I understand your satire but grandpa doesnot!
Don't worry. Nobody believes anything that comes out of their mouth at this point. 420 doesn't reference a time by the way.
I recognize your satire grams.
thats mysandry!!! :)
@@cindy25495 even i , a great grandpa , caught that one ,; and i quit smoking dope after it became legal
4:20 was the time the kids would meet after school to smokw weed
Everyone who factchecked these should be required to wear a dunce cap for the next 4 years. 🤦♂
Yes! With a picture of Gavin Newscum on the cap!
I fact check satire all the time. Dunce cap causes brain freeze.
And no pot smokin !!
Or wear a sandwich board saying “I fact checked The Babylon Bee”.
or admit they are a Communist...
Thanks for my best laugh of the day! *_"Fake News You Can Trust!"_*
They put more work into fact-checking satirical articles than they do the actual articles they write.
The best is when fact checkers, fact check sarcasm 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Agreed.
I was in facebook jail. I have learned my lesson and I know that a box of puppies is not medication for mental health.
Yes that's right! A box of puppies with the words who can be sad when you have puppies! A photo I found on facebook!
I love The Babylon Bee! You guys are knocking it out of the park.
6:14 As a recovering naval architect, I took a moment to ponder the buoyancy properties of floating an aircraft carrier on a sufficiently-sized pool of water on the moon. If I remember my NASA visits correctly, the moon’s gravity is about 1/6 that of Earth. So at first I figured, well the carrier would float much higher in the water, as it only weighs 1/6 as much. But then I remembered that Archimedes’ Principle states that the force of buoyancy equals the weight of water displaced, and as such, one must recall that the water itself would only weigh 1/6 as much as it would on Earth, being subjected to the same local gravity as the carrier. Thus I conclude that the flotation of the carrier (i.e. height of waterline) would be essentially the same as on Earth.
Well Done .
Great to know aircraft carriers are feasible in a place where there’s no air.
@TheNotoriousENG
I was going to say that first, but yeah. I can confirm this as accurate! Also, the answer is always 'no' if you don't try. So there's that
Can we fact check that?
The 2 things I immediately thought were:
1) Aircraft can't fly in a vacuum, no air for lift and no oxygen for combustion
2) Liquid water isn't going to last long where there is no air pressure, and the temperature is either far below freezing in the shade, or far above boiling in the sunlight.
Fact: Maryland had a rain tax where the homeowner had to pay a tax on the amount of rain that would fall on their property. There was such a large outcry that it was repealed. Considering that I wouldn't put it past California to put a tax on breathing.
Colorado has such a law. The more solid surface you have on or around your property the more you pay in runoff fees.
@@merylpelosi8485 We gotta get rid of Polis.
Anyone hear of Cochabamba, Columbia? Nestle came in to run the water supply and made it illegal (the would sue the municipality) to gather rainwater. The water was exhorbitant compared to the previous water prices. This did not go down well and riots ensued. Over 80 people died and Nestle was kicked out although they did try to sue Columbia for breach of contract. Don't know what became of that.
Toronto, Canada wants to do the same thing regarding taxing rain.
What a wonderful world we have created! Enjoy!
This was under and supported by MD Dem governor Martin O’Malley. It was a tax on the paved portions of the property because the asphalt prevented water from being absorbed into the ground. Very absurd!
Rain tax is actually a thing in Europe.
"sewage usage through precipitation" but it's ofc a raintax.
Here in Maryland they tried to tax the rain, so CA taxing breathing doesn't sound that ridiculous!
In California we're not supposed to collect rainwater and before I bought my house (2020) I had to sign that I wasn't going to turn it into a farm😂
@@jillsy2815 It's the same in Denver.
@@jillsy2815 reminds me that a number of the houses that survived the wildfire had a swimming pool. lol
That "Cannabis Carl" one was almost understandable, it's a good Photoshop, makes me laugh every-time I see it! 😆
I have gotten into the habit when i read an outrageous headline I check to see if it is the Babylon Bee.
Unfortunately not often enough.
It's either the Bee or MSNBC
All too often it isn't.
I think the more outrageous thing is, the headlines were fact-checked and confirmed to be true very soon after.
I find myself doing that even when the artcle might be correct.
Over the last 6 months BB has been almost right on with reality! Keep up the great work!
The Babylon Bee is my source of hope for having accountable humans someday.
The Bee is my only source for truth in publishing
I especially like that Reuters reached out to Customs and Border Protection for comment on the ballot drop boxes.
When I was working as a military contractor in Korea, California tried to claim all civilians who had an APO (Army Post Office) address in the Far East as residents of California for income tax purposes and wanted everyone to pay up as the APO's zip code came back as downtown San Francisco. Military were exempt as federal law protected them but everyone else who used an APO address was fair game. After a big court case which California lost, they finally dropped the idea to generate additional funds that way.
In a lot of places having a Post office box doesn't even count as residency.
The problem with Leftists is that before they can run out of others people's money they have to figure out how to get their hands on it.
@@icedriver2207 Tell that to California. The courts did and our residency was confirmed to what it had been.
@@icedriver2207 Only for tax purposes!
This is an interesting story and I'd like to share it, but keyword searches are bogged down in irrelevant California tax info noise. Do you know the name of the case, about when this was, or some other info that might help find a source for it?
Satire is only satire when there isn't even a single kernel of truth... and that's what's so scary here, you guys nail it every time because I could totally believe so much of it, it's not out of the realm of possibility in this clown world we have.
Truly hilarious video, gentlemen! The Malifornia state mis-government DID seriously - albeit only momentarily because of the tsunami of angry reaction - consider a tax on each text sent. So, it's not much of a stretch to spoof a Malifornia tax on ANYTHING and EVERYTHING.
I remember when The Onion was funny like these headlines.
Great fact checks. I lived the Space Navy idea.
🎯🎯🎯 And, I’m a Boomer anyhow- Remember those Songs & Commercial RUSH LIMBAUGH use to air on his 3 Hour WABC & Radio Shows? 😂😂😂. Nothing New Under the Don… also “ The Old Philosopher “ 45 speed singles 😂😂!!
My local radio station in Northern Virginia, near DC, reported the lace collar story on the NBA players as true.
😂
Fact Checker: Facebook's version of an obnoxious drunken heckler! 😎
Keep doing this! It keeps the idiots busy fact checking stuff so they have less time to make up stupid BS!
Imagine a world where theres people fact checking jokes...
its called clown world, and we are living in it.
Fact check: an Irishman *DID NOT* walk into a bar.
Maybe in an alternate 2050, there are tiny earphones stuck to everyone's ears, which plays a message from a liberal AI fact-checker. Just imagine a comedian telling a joke, but then a robotic voice suddently tells him and his audience that the joke was fake news.
@@-James-A Because he was already in the bar and never left
Dont need to imagine
Having the opportunity to set the record straight, but deciding to make it worse just for the fun of it is the most Kyle thing Kyle's ever done. He's a satirist to the bone!
I have a meme where Foghorn Leghorn is holding that young chickenhawk in his hand, with the caption, "It's a joke, son."
Pic please 😂
Fact Checkers…you gotta do something with that Journalism BA🤷♂️
I would have believed all 12 of these were it not for fact checkers. LOL. Thanks for the laughs Babylon Bee.
🎯🎯🎯! These! And: ‘ The Chequers in the Mail’, ‘ Of COURSE I’ll Respect you in the Morning…’, ‘… Yeah, That’s True Honey Bunny; but I’m getting a Divorce…’ and MY FAV: ‘ ‘ NOOOO my little Kitten! That Dress DOESN’T Make you look Fat 🙄’. God Bless. NRN . 👴🏽NoBody , O.O.D. , Retired
Facebook put me in jail for the “Fauci syringe swastika” cartoon during covid
Yeah, it drives me bananas that anybody can be on FB when they ban conservatives. I was banned long ago, yet all my family and friends are on it and have a blast, keeping in touch. It doesn't even occur to them that anybody could get banned, and if they did find out someone was banned, they'd think it was a GOOD thing that they're trying to keep the platform safe! It's so infuriating.
@@Cindybin46 RIGHT? I was banned for posting to the family, that my mother passed from "the mess" but I used the C O V.....well you get it. Was the family upset that my post was banned, and fact checked? Nope, to this day..."we sure wished you were still on here"...Or, did you see, so and so's post?- oh wait.. One cousin even said, you know it's safe to come back on now..🤨🤨they said I lied..I LIED less than 2 hours after my mother died...and I should go back because it's safe? 🤬
@@k.p.1139 Yeah, it's really frustrating that people don't understand and don't care. Especially when they're always talking about FB, or ask if I saw something on FB and I have to remind them I'm not on it, etc.
They did that to me for 2 weeks for posting that cctv video from the election where they kicked out all the people who had to watch after which they pulled these 'completely legal' suitcases from everywhere to push them in the machines at record speed. I deleted facebook and never went back, the moment they bought instagram and whatsapp that got wiped of my phone as well..
I once got a 7 day ban because I gave a negative review of a terrible movie. It was one of the Charlie's Angels movies.
We need a Top 100 funniest times Babylon Bee got fact checked next. Because I could watch this for hours. The ridiculousness never ceases to amaze me 🤣🤣🤣
Top times the satire became fact
I once had an aptitude test with a question of the lifting capacity of a Helicopter on the moon. Obvious, they were relating to the lower gravity on the moon. My logic said, there was no way the helicopter would even run on the moon, secondly the ability of the blades to produce enough lift....I got that one marked wrong. That was only 40 years ago! I do not hold a grudge, ...
… or give it a second thought 🤣🤣🤣
I'm imagining Leonard holding up his "sarcasm" sign for Sheldon...
Remember that thoroughbred Karen declaring she and her cat were 💯 proud, happy, healthy vegans CN: ‘Cats are carnivorous’
There's a delightful video out there of a woman saying that her dog is a vegetarian. Then she put out two kinds of food, and the dog went straight for the meat.
The funniest bit about this whole debacle is that people are getting paid a wage to check these "facts". Are they laughing themselves sick while Googling? I would be.
I got fact checked by "an independent fact checker" just 2 days ago on Facebook for showing a pic of Obama, Hillary, AOC, and Pelosi doing the "notsee salute"
Everybody knows they’re heartless, so what else could it have been?
Me, too
Truth stranger than fiction-thx for documenting all this ! I was busy working!
I was a fan of Weekly World News back in the day. Epic headlines were “Bat Child Found in Cave” and “Farmer Shoots Down Butterfly With Six Foot Wingspan”. The headlines were complete with photos. This was well before photoshop was available and stupidity was not as rampant.
Definitely made grocery store check out experiences more colorful.
Oh, I miss the WWN. Much better than the Hollywood tabloid junk today.
I wrote a blog article after the waterslide "fact check" called "How to Not Look Stupid on Social Media" and when I was looking at your website to research examples of your parodies, I saw the one about Kermit Gosnell to address the DNC from prison. When I saw that come through my feed a few months earlier, I didn't realize it was yours. and I remember my reaction at the time had been, "That's just crazy enough to be true."
I am from Oklahoma and I always believed the word "janky" was an Oklahoma word so when you said that word I was shocked, it felt like I had been mislead my whole life, like when a parent tells their kid "I don't know who your daddy is" and then at 18 they tell them their father is a locked up convict! It was cool though to hear someone say that word cause it brought back a lot of good memories, so thank you, for unintentionally shocking me and bringing back good memories!
C'mon, everyone who has ever watched The Bee for more than 10 seconds knows that every bit of its material is literally, literally true!
They are literally a professional documentary production company licensed by the CIA, FBI, DoJ, FDA, and every single major newspaper that has ever existed. And the crazy part is they only do it as a side gig in order to fund their favorite Red ant/platypus rescue charity.
Satire, parody and parables….just an act of communicating on the world stage…👍🏼BB
I doubt it is grandmas who don't understand satire. It's probably college students who graduated from public school.
Grandmas can see through the BS...
Especially the ones with green hair and rainbow flags.
Snopes: No, Snopes never fact checked Babylon Bee articles.
I remember when John Lennon said that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. That didn't go over too well either.
It went over great for the Beatles as rabid overzealous Christians purchased Beatle records so they had something to burn in their outrage.
How could anyone believe that Joel Osten used the Lord's name in a sermon on the first place.
We all mess up sometimes...
who ?
The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look human... sweat, bad breath, everything. They even eat meat and practice MMA. -Kyle Reese
The Bee Is On Fire!!!
It’s amazing how easily fooled MAGA is by a billionaire suddenly pandering to them…
Then again, I guess it’s perfectly on-brand.
@sthubbins4038 why are you here, go cry about the election while you're watching MSDNC you donkey.
I got like 999 😮
Fact check false click here to see why:
Fact check: the babylon bee is digital and therefore cannot be on fire.
The movie idiocracy was clearly a documentary.
Ya got that shit right!!
I am going to fact-check that later
Prophetic at the very least
The Vice president was a woman of color that previously was a hooker, checks out
How many times must someone make this comment
Every single ONE of those "fact checks" had me laughing my ass off!!!😄😅🤣🤣🤣
420! 😂😂😂 You guys gotta both know this 420 thing is not time! You kill me!
I always thought RBG was frozen and brought out when a liberal SC vote was needed.
A necessary liberal vote would require actual liberals to be in control of the dnc. They want what they want
Perhaps she perished during a round of cost-cutting blackouts?
I am reminded of this quote with all these fact checks - “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” ― P.T. Barnum
Actually it was P. T. Barnum.
"The problem with the Internet is that you can never be sure that what you read is actually true."
- Abraham Lincoln
@ I admit it was quoted wrong. I fixed it. How aweful of a person to you have to be to leave such a nasty hearted response. You could have just stated your resopnse.
VeggieTales Cannabis character 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Love your stuff. Continue the great insanity work! Love it!
They got the washer from Bill O’Reilly, as he clearly never used it in his famous no spin zone
You guys are hysterical!! 😂😂😅😂
I fact checked the fact checkers and in fact found that the Babylon Bee facts are in fact facts.
You guys are costing some fact checking geek a lot of money. Great job!
9:18 Ballot Drop Boxes!!! 😂😂😂😂 That's story is the best!!!
You guys are awesome for this. Had me laughing
Fact check those BEATLES, Zuck! “🎶if you want to walk they’ll TAX YOUR FEET🎶🎶” hahahahaha
❤❤❤ THANK YOU AGAIN AND AGAIN...I HAVNT LAUGHT THAT HARD SINCE PRE COVID...
The best parody and satire is such that it appears it could be probable.
You guys actually got me on the lace collar one. And I'm a Bee follower.
I'm amazed that every fact check for the Babylon Bee doesn't just say, "The Babylon Bee is a Christian satirical website. All articles created are satire or parody."
YOU GUYS are the best! (FACT-check that). Best humour + Courage to take on the 'Ministry of Truth'. BRAVO!!! #ChristIsRisen
This is hilarious!!! Of course, it WAS getting harder and harder to tell it was satire as the world got stranger and more bizarre, so i can see some people needing the fact checks....
At 8:53, reminds me of Father Guido Sarducci.
Beautiful work as always. Thanks for sharing!
Now Zuck needs a “My Pillow” with Trump signature embroidered on it, & pillow cases! In fact, ID LIKE A SET!
He will totally get that after he is allowed to let go of his ankles.
You know the people that answer the calls from the fact checkers eventually asking them "Babylon Bee article?.😂😂😂
I can't help but think that the "fact check" must have been a compliment. As if to say, this satire is so convincing, we need to tell people not to believe it.
In these trying times, The Babylon Bee has a wealth of source material to choose from, in fact I think that TBB is the only place that is happy that our world has gone to shit.
Much love from the UK
I want to see a BB article that Snopes recursively factchecks themselves... "Fact Check: This factcheck is false!"
(...yes, I teach mathematics.)
I’m waiting for Zack to start wearing a cowboy hat and hold a gun in one hand. 😂😂😂😂 he’s demeanor changed a lot, seriously. A changed man!
An opportunity was missed; BB could've made parody fact checks.
You guys are always so funny! Thanks for the laughs.
I fact-checked this video and found it to be nothing more than a bunch of 0’s and 1’s projected onto a screen via millions of teeny tiny LED lights that people call “pixels.”
I think the issue is that many Americans simply do not understand satire. I say this as an Australian with many American friends. Australians constantly use it even mocking our own friends (indeed it a sign that you are a genuine friend when this happens). Some of my American friends simply do not get it and one in particular gets angry (even when it is explained to him what is going on).
Remember, we live among people who (arguably) actually elected Joe Biden, and came entirely too close to electing Kamala. On one side of the country we have Schumer and on the other side Schiff. While I SO wish that any such reports were MERELY satire, alas, they are true.
I suppose it is the triumph of US tax-funded public "education" for the last 80 or more years, coupled with the ready supply of God-less stupid selfishness that leads too many of us to believe that government will just give us what we want and the "rich" will pay for it.
The worldwide shortage of idiots is over, and several local shortages have been resolved as well. Perhaps we in the US can be "proud" we have more of them than y'all on your island. I mean, in sheer numbers - we neither of us want to compare percentages, I think.
You guys are the best…. Funny!!
I posted a literal quote from Teddy Roosevelt on FB and was fact checked 18 times as I reposted it.. pissed me off so bad I left FB
Fact Check: "Teddy Roosevelt doesn't actually carry a big stick. "
"Each one of Trump's 31 Felony convictions made him MORE popular with previous Democrat-only voters."..... When Marion Barry and historical norms create their own parody.....
The Community Notes are quite comical too.
This is one of the funniest videos I've seen in the history of TH-cam
The Biden Administration was so weird to begin with that I had to double check news items to see if they were real or the Bee.
I’m going to sleep so well tonight knowing this video exists. Thank you.
If The Bee pretended that the fact checkers are still out there a lot more mileage is to had. It will still take the public some time to figure it out. Of course, some of the public
will never figure it out. Try it.
I Love your Carman Memorabilia on your Shelf! I’m a big Carman Fan and also a Fan of your channel! Keep up the Great work! 👍
I like that the P-shop of the carrier on the moon has Sukhoi Su-27 Flankers and Eurofighter Typhoons on a US carrier. (and that there's no air on the moon for a jet to actually fly in...)
Also, there is no way for a carrier to sail to the moon.
The moon is fake