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The Babylon Bee is a Christian satire site that publishes funny articles like "LeBron James Suffers Herniated Disc While Carrying Entire Team On His Back and "Local Man Googles ‘What Is An Iran Deal’ Moments Before Posting Dogmatic Opinion On Iran Deal Online."
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I sold The Babylon Bee and am no longer running it

I sold The Babylon Bee about a month ago. I’m no longer running it, but it’s still in good hands. I thought I’d let you all know what, who, and why.... Why would I sell The Babylon Bee? There are a number of reasons why I came to the conclusion that it was the best option for me. I won’t get into all of them, but I’ll share a few.  ...

I’ve become super convicted about the large-scale ills of Facebook and Google.

I fully realize that a major reason the Bee (and my webcomic, for that matter) was able to blow up like it did was because of social media — Facebook in particular. This is just how it goes when you make things for the internet: you create, you post to social media, you hope people like it and it spreads. But the power that Facebook held over me as a content creator began to make me very uneasy. ...

I’ve thought about this deeply and carefully, and I think the centralization of the internet is one of the greatest threats to the spread of the gospel, and the well-being of mankind, that we face today. Maybe the single biggest threat. It is tyranny over information. It’s a handful of people who are hostile to the Christian message and the plight of the individual deciding what’s good and bad, true and false. It’s never been seen before on this scale. I am no conspiracy theorist; never have been. From where I sit, this danger is as clear as day.

All of this is to say nothing about the long-term ramifications of the massive collection of personal data, or the incalculable intrapersonal effects social media is having on us.  ...
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