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Along with producing its satirical website, as of 2025 the Babylon Bee produced two podcasts; had written and produced a satirical film about the January 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot; and was publishing a book series titled The Babylon Bee Guides. 2
Not the Bee is a humorous news website from the creators of the Babylon Bee featuring actual news stories the editors consider absurd and funny. 3
Activities
The Babylon Bee is a Christian satirical website that claims to be “fake news you can trust.” Its content includes satirical articles and videos on a variety of topics that include politics, Chrisitan living, crime, science, popular culture, and technology. 4 The Babylon Bee website also features a worship song generator and an artificial-intelligence-assisted article generator that produces satirical articles targeting U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), a meta-joke responding to claims the site overly focused on the New York City politician. 5
Released in 2024, the Babylon Bee wrote and produced a satirical film January 6: The Most Deadliest Day. The satirical film focuses on the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol, calling it “the day that almost ended democracy” by making audiences “laugh, cry, and cower in terror.” The film includes interviews with participants in the riot, statements by politicians, and takes from news pundits. 6
The Babylon Bee also produces two podcasts, The Babylon Bee Podcast and Babylon Bee Radio, with more than 43,000 subscribers in total. 7
Not the Bee
Not the Bee is a humor-based website from the creators of the Babylon Bee that features absurd and funny real news its editors believe would work well as satire. The site is meant to inform and entertain, and publishes opinions, videos, personalities, and memes along with the news. Not the Bee also features a social network, allowing subscribers to like posts, tag other subscribers, join interest-based groups, and post thoughts, links, and photos. 3
Financials
While the Babylon Bee offers much of its content for free, its subscribers gain access to comments and its social network. The Babylon Bee’s rates as of 2025 were $6 a month for a basic subscription and $12 a month for a premium subscription, with an option to be billed annually at a 16 percent discount. The premium subscription offers access to the Babylon Bee Headline Forum and access to the January 6 movie. 8
Not the Bee offers a stand-alone subscription for $10 a month or a bundle with the Babylon Bee for $20 a month, each with an option to be billed annually at a discount of 10 percent or 20 percent, respectively. 9
People
As of 2025, Seth Dillon was the CEO of the Babylon Bee and the recipient of the Heritage Foundation’s 2025 Salvatori Prize for American Citizenship. 10
As of 2025, Dan Dillon was the CTO and lead developer of the Babylon Bee as well as the CEO and co-founder of Not the Bee. 11
Kyle Mann was the editor-in-chief of the Babylon Bee as of 2025 and the co-author of the book The Postmodern Pilgrim’s Progress. Mann is a former worship ministry director at the Highpoint Church in San Diego. 12
Joel Berry is the managing editor of the Babylon Bee, the owner of Reconcile Media, and the co-author of The Postmodern Pilgrim’s Progress. 13
Adam Ford founded the Babylon Bee in 2016. Ford sold the Babylon Bee to Seth Dillon in 2018 and went on to create the Christian Daily Reporter, which turned into Disrn and later became Not the Bee. Ford sold all his remaining stakes in the Babylon Bee and Not the Bee in 2023. 1