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January 2, 2026

EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: Babylon Bee Editor Thanks Snopes for Debunking This Believable Story About Tim Walz’s $8 Billion Grant.

Snopes feels the need to "debunk" precisely because the satire is so believable. https://t.co/4AwLu2gs2I

— Mark Krikorian (@MarkSKrikorian) January 2, 2026

Flashback to Trump’s first term, when a “fact checking” Website was obsessed with a — deliberately — satiric one: The Babylon Bee Satirizes the Absurdities of American Politics. Snopes Doesn’t Seem to Get the Joke.

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