John,

Elon Musk made a bold (and expensive) move to buy Twitter after seeing the tech giant de-platform The Babylon Bee simply for telling a joke.

While Elon joined The Bee in launching a revolution for free speech, X stood alone in rejecting unquestioning conformity. Censorship remained king on virtually every other social media platform, including Facebook.

Despite the woke left's best efforts to silence The Babylon Bee, we haven't feared retribution from advertisers or being ‘canceled' by woke social media platforms because we have freedom-loving Americans like you who support our work.

Subscribers are the backbone of The Babylon Bee, which allows us to battle for freedom of thought, the exchange of ideas, and truth. Your support as a member will allow us to continue creating satirical content and fighting for free speech.

Given Facebook's history of suppressing dissent, it was a huge surprise when Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook and Meta recently outed the Biden administration for demanding his platform censor opposing viewpoints.

Appearing on Joe Rogan's podcast, Zuckerberg said:

"These people from the Biden administration would call up our team and, like, scream at them and curse… Basically, it just got to this point where we were like, no, we're not going to take down things that are true… We just said, no, we're not going to take down humor and satire."

I wouldn't be surprised if Biden's lackeys called up Twitter and demanded they silence The Babylon Bee after we told a joke about Rachel Levine — Biden's U.S. assistant secretary for health.

It seems satirical that a website that got its start with church humor garnered national attention for telling a joke—but it's true, and it catapulted us into the national conversation on free speech.

As a subscriber, you can help The Babylon Bee keep delivering fake news you can trust — no matter what pressures we face from woke, anti-freedom activists.

Given what Mark Zuckerberg shared with Joe Rogan, it seems it was common practice for Biden's team to call up social media companies and demand they remove content the administration didn't like.

We certainly didn't buy ourselves any favors with headlines including, "Joe Biden found in dumpster behind DNC Convention Center" and "Joe Biden praised for historic rescue efforts to save kid he pushed down a well."

But, this is America, we value freedom, and we aren't going to apologize for writing satire. Sorry, not sorry, Joe.

Even with Biden out the door, Trump in the White House, X leading Big Tech in its allegiance to free speech, and Facebook making strides to curb its suppression of thought … the censorship machine hasn't dissolved.

As the free speech war wages us, please help The Babylon Bee stand on the right side of history. Join as a member today.

Thanks for supporting free speech. We'll never give up the fight.

Seth Dillon

CEO, The Babylon Bee

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