Subscribe today to the Washington Examiner magazine that will keep you up to date with what's going on in Washington. Then it argued that, in any event, the tweet was true. First, the Babylon Bee, which is, after all, a humor website, argued that the tweet, like all of its other tweets, was a joke. To do so is "hateful conduct." In a new interview for my podcast, the Babylon Bee's CEO, Seth Dillon, described the publication's effort to persuade Twitter to reverse its decision. Twitter's policy forbids users from referring to Levine as a man. Rachel Levine, a senior Biden administration official who is transgender, the Babylon Bee's "Man of the Year." The tweet was a play on USA Today's inclusion of Levine as one of its "Women of the Year." Levine, born male and originally named Richard Levine, lived as a man until roughly the age of 50. Twitter said the Babylon Bee violated its "hateful conduct" policy with a tweet that declared Dr. Twitter locked the humor website out of its account on March 20, and the account has remained locked ever since. But there is another case of Twitter censorship that is just as compelling, that is going on right at this moment, and that may have played a part in Musk's decision.
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WILL BABYLON BEE GET OUT OF TWITTER JAIL? Those who are cheering on Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter often cite the suppression of the New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story or the ban on former President Donald Trump as examples of Twitter's violations of basic tenets of free speech.
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