Babylon Bee blasts Southern Poverty Law Center after left-wing group doxxes anonymous writers

Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon slammed the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) connected Tuesday for doxxing respective of his website's anonymous writers, successful a station that went viral connected X.

The Babylon Bee is simply a Christian conservative-leaning satire tract that produces humorous fake quality stories. Dillon revealed respective of the writers for its non-satirical sister tract – called "Not the Bee" due to the fact that it features existent quality stories that look excessively outlandish to beryllium existent – were astir to person their identities exposed by the SPLC.

"The discredited, scandal-ridden smear mill known arsenic the SPLC is astir to people a deed portion doxxing respective of our ‘Not the Bee’ writers who wished to stay anonymous truthful they could talk freely, without fear," Dillon announced.

"The SPLC extracted delicate accusation from our site, past utilized that accusation to interaction our writers directly. I’ve included a screenshot of 1 of these emails below," his station continued.

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The Babylon Bee's sister site, "Not the Bee," features existent quality stories that look excessively outlandish to beryllium true. (Babylon Bee)

The SPLC, a almighty progressive civilian rights radical that the FBI has cited arsenic a assets and is often quoted successful the media, has labeled salient blimpish organizations and parental rights groups, specified arsenic the Family Research Council (FRC) and Moms for Liberty, arsenic "extremists," alongside groups similar the Ku Klux Klan.

The SPLC posted its communicative connected Tuesday astir the Babylon Bee, headlined "Inside The Beehive" and portion of its "HateWatch" section. It boasted of revealing the identities of 14 of Not The Bee's pseudonymous writers, and it accused The Babylon Bee of "amplifying far-right rhetoric and disinformation," adjacent portion noting it was a satire tract successful the aforesaid vein of The Onion.

Not The Bee stories, the SPLC wrote, "feature powerfully anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant themes," which was presumably wherefore the tract sought to uncover its contented creators.

In the attached email, SPLC investigative writer Creede Newton alerts "Not the Bee" unit writer, who posts nether a pseudonym, that the SPLC has discovered their identity, workplace and metropolis location, arsenic good arsenic different penning this idiosyncratic has done online. The SPLC writer warned that they program to people a communicative astir this writer's online comments connected the transgender issue.

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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is simply a progressive American nonprofit ineligible advocacy enactment specializing successful civilian rights and nationalist involvement litigation successful Montgomery, Alabama. (Photo by Barry Lewis/InPictures via Getty Images)

The email shared by Dillon reads, "‘Planet Moron’ has maintained a abstracted web beingness arsenic a blogger for astir 20 years, but since 2020 has written implicit 600 articles for Not the Bee. Exposed writer accusation connected Not the Bee's root corde [sic] indicates that ‘Planet Moron’ [is] you, [redacted], a [redacted] teacher from [redacted]. 'Planet Moron' is simply a prolific writer connected culture-war issues. One nonfiction mocks transgender children arsenic 'mentally sick tween[s]' who are ‘the economical lifeblood of the multi-billion-dollar trans industry.’ Do you privation to comment?" 

The nonfiction by Newton and Megan Squire went connected to item however it exposed the authors done the site's root code.

Dillon said earlier that the SPLC did what they did due to the fact that they were activists and "vindictive bullies who've admitted their purpose is to 'completely destroy' individuals and organizations they disagree with by making them wage a steep terms for speaking freely."

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Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon posted a defiant connection to SPLC, upon learning that the left-wing radical was acceptable to "dox" respective of "Not the Bee's" unit writers. (Fox News Digital)

Dan Dillon and Adam Ford, the co-founders of Not the Bee, besides published statements defending their website and writers, portion slamming the SPLC for their effort to "smear" and "intimidate" their writers.

"They are angry, bitter, resentful hacks that consciousness similar their quality to pummel radical into worldview submission is slipping away," Dan Dillon wrote.

Joel Abbott, editor-in-chief of Not the Bee, besides wrote, "Not the Bee is simply a task of love, not of hate," and taunted the radical to "dox america if you dare."

The SPLC has travel nether occurrence from blimpish critics, who've accused the SPLC of smearing non-violent groups who clasp accepted beliefs with the "hate group" label.

The radical besides faced contention In 2012 erstwhile a gunman, who said helium was inspired by the SPLC's "hate map," attempted to behaviour a wide shooting astatine the FRC gathering successful Washington, D.C., but was thwarted by a gathering manager.

Dillon and the SPLC did not instantly instrumentality Fox News Digital's requests for comment.

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