The Babylon Bee, a satirical conservative website, was locked out of its Twitter account last week after the tech company accused the Bee of violating its rules against "hateful content" for a post jokingly naming Biden administration official Dr. Rachel Levine the Bee’s 2022 "Man of the Year." Dr. Levine is a transgender woman. Twitter said the site would retain access to the account if the tweet was deleted. CEO Seth Dillon has said the site will do no such thing.
A day later, New York Times "Sway" podcast host Kara Swisher asserted there was "no evidence" of political bias against conservatives occurring on social media platforms, a claim reiterated frequently by Democratic lawmakers and liberal media personalities.
Speaking with Fox News Digital, Fox News contributor and "The Federalist" editor-in-chief Mollie Hemingway said the notion that censorship hits both political parties equally simply because a few conservative outlets are allowed to exist on social media platforms is "gaslighting in the extreme."