Twitter Suspends Right-Wing Site for Misgendering Rachel Levine
The Babylon Bee, a satirical right-wing site, has been suspended from Twitter due to its tweet misgendering Rachel Levine, assistant secretary for health at the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services.The site was suspended for violating Twitter’s hateful conduct rule with its tweet saying it had selected Levine, a transgender woman, as its Man of the Year.
Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon tweeted about the suspension Sunday night from his personal account. The suspension means the Bee cannot tweet or retweet, put likes on other tweets, or obtain new followers.
It was set to be lifted in 12 hours after the offending tweet is deleted, but Dillon said the Bee would not delete it, and he suggested other ways for followers to engage with the site. “Truth is not hate speech,” he tweeted. “If the cost of telling the truth is the loss of our Twitter account, then so be it.” The Bee’s tweet was in response to USA Today naming Levine one of its Women of the Year.
