The Babylon Bee

The Babylon Bee is a satire site published by Babylon Bee, LLC. It describes itself as “your trusted source for Christian news satire” and says it writes “satire about Christian stuff, political stuff, and everyday life.”

Staff and Related Sites

The site’s staff page lists Seth Dillon as chief executive, Dan Dillon as chief technology officer and lead developer, and Kyle Mann as editor in chief. It names two properties under “Our Sites”: The Babylon Bee and Not the Bee, a companion site published by a separate limited liability company with the same staff page.

Products

Alongside the site the Bee publishes video and podcasts, sells merchandise through a store, runs a newsletter, and sells a paid membership.

Sourcing Note

The Bee’s About page is largely written in character — it states that the publication “was created ex nihilo on the eighth day of the creation week, exactly 6,000 years ago” — so only its staff listing and site list are used here.

A large share of the previous version of this page could not be sourced and has been removed. That includes the 2016 founding by the cartoonist Adam Ford; the claim that Seth Dillon “acquired a majority stake in 2018” and moved the business to Florida; the account of early growth “driven by social media sharing in evangelical communities”; the 2019 launch of a premium subscription with a community forum and live streams; the account of Facebook and YouTube penalties applied after fact-checking partners flagged satire; the March 2022 Twitter account lock and its later restoration; and “a 2021 settlement with a national newspaper following a lawsuit over a newsletter characterization.” That last claim is the most serious: it asserts litigation and a settlement, and no docket, party or outcome could be found for it in any accessible source. It should not be restored without one. Claims about Dillon speaking at technology-policy events on Section 230 and about fundraising drives for demonetized creators are removed on the same basis.

Because the founding date could not be sourced, the founded: 2016 value has been removed from this page’s frontmatter.