From the New York Times, January 7:
Fact-checking groups that worked with Meta said they had no role in deciding what the company did with the content that was fact-checked....
....MUCH MORE
The Babylon Bee's editor-in-chief has offered the headline writer a job:
I'd like to offer whoever wrote this headline at the New York Times a job at @TheBabylonBee pic.twitter.com/krJYrownuk
— Kyle Mann (@The_Kyle_Mann) January 7, 2025
If I were the Bee I'd be a bit concerned that satire will soon be unable to compete with reality.
We've seen it happen before [website shut down, here's the internet archive]:
Middle East satire site concedes defeat after labourers forced to run Qatari marathon in flip-flops
Editors at semi-popular Middle East satire news website The Pan-Arabia Enquirer yesterday revealed that they had “given up” in their long-running struggle to keep ahead of reality.
The announcement came following last week’s news that labourers working in Qatar had been coerced into taking part in a marathon, with many bussed in from their dormitories and forced to run in jeans and flip-flops as part of a failed bid to break the world record for number of participants.
“Honestly, simply cannot compete in these sorts of conditions,” said Enquirer acting editor Baltimore Stafford in a statement.
“Over the years, we’ve had to deal with a growing trend of real-life trying to outdo satire, especially in Saudi Arabia, but this is beyond our capabilities. To be honest, we could have probably worked around the whole ‘labourers forced to take part in marathon’ bit, but with the addition of flip-flops, jeans and the fact it was a shambolic attempt to break a record, we’ve had to concede defeat.”
I don't think even Jonathan Swift could compete with that.