How a Preacher’s Son Made Babylon Bee Sting

Taking the stage for a panel where he and other speakers were introduced as "intellectual giants," Seth Dillon waited for the applause to die down before offering a self-deprecating rebuttal. "I do jokes on the internet," he said. That's technically true. But, since taking control of The Babylon Bee three years ago, Dillon has magnified the reach of the satirical website begun by Adam Ford in 2016, moving beyond joke-telling to becoming a serious force in conservative politics and culture. The website gets about 20 million page views each month, up from around 3 million when Dillon took over. And as Fox News personality Tucker Carlson recently said when Dillon appeared on his show, "Probably most of our viewers get Babylon Bee headlines texted to them each day."