Snopes Is Fighting With a Right Wing Humor Site, With Satire So Unfunny it Reads Like Fake News
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Earlier this summer, Christian “humor” site The Babylon Bee (think of it as The Onion, if the blog catered to the far-right and employed only inept, unfunny bloggers) published an article titled, “Georgia Lawmaker Claims Chick-Fil-A Employee Told Her To Go Back To Her Country, Later Clarifies He Actually Said ‘My Pleasure.’” It was presumably meant as a parody of a viral Facebook post from July, in which Erica Thomas, a Georgia state representative, said a white man in a grocery store told her to “go back” to where she came from. According to the New York Times, the accused man disputed the Thomas’ story, identifying himself as a Democrat—which sparked outrage on the right, inspiring “humor” blogs like the one posted on the Babylon Bee.
However! The blog was unfunny to the point where it was not easily identifiable as satire, or anything remotely resembling comedy. So Snopes—a fact-checking website that debunks trending stories and reader-submitted suggestions—published a fact-check of the story a few days later, titled “Did a Georgia Lawmaker Claim a Chick-fil-A Employee Told Her to Go Back to Her Country?”. Spoiler: she did not.
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