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The Babylon Bee is a right-wing satire site that borrows a format from the satirical news outlet The Onion while amplifying far-right rhetoric and disinformation. Its sister site, Not the Bee, is a junk-news site with salacious headlines about culture-war issues designed to stir up right-wing outrage. Dillon, who purchased the Bee in 2018, has been tight-lipped about his past businesses, with making only vague references to his history in 鈥渆-commerce鈥� or a 鈥渓egal filing service.鈥�

Publicly available data reveals that from 2004 to 2011, Dillon operated two term-paper writing services, Custom-Writing.com and TheWriteElements.com, which to write term papers for college students.

The Write Elements website , and that same phone number appeared in data sets , a now-defunct freelancer search service, and later leaked to the public internet, where the Data Lab viewed it. Along with the phone number, the Elance data breach also listed email addresses for 鈥渟dillon鈥� and 鈥淪eth Dillon鈥� at both of the term-paper websites.

The Custom-Writing.com site claimed to have been in business , and both term-paper businesses were , according to on the now-defunct essay mill websites.

Seth Dillon attended Palm Beach Atlantic University, a Christian college, in Palm Beach County from 2000 to 2004. He has had several residences there, including his current home in upscale Jupiter.

In a 2006 review of Custom-Writing.com, :

Their prices were so low that made me go with this company. Also the fact that I have paid them by paypal made me think that this company is for real and trustful. Unfortunately, none of the 3 essays were never done by them. Every last day they were supposed to finish and send the essay to me, they claimed that they have lost contact with the writer or couldn鈥檛 deal with my topic, even though I was contacting with them every now and them and asking about hte [sic] progress, telling me that everything is according to schedule.

Another customer said they received a paper from the service that they

In 2009, Dillon appears to have begun transitioning TheWriteElements into a business called Optisearch Marketing LLC. In 2009, the Optisearch appeared on multiple pages of TheWriteElements.com website.

In 2011, Florida passed a law .

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In 2014, Dillon registered a Delaware company called Volentric LLC in Florida. Volentric appears to serve as a parent company for a 鈥� including NameChangeResources.org, ConcealedCarryServices.org and ExpressFilings.com 鈥� that purport to help consumers fill out government paperwork, for a fee.

One user of one of Dillon鈥檚 name-change websites : 鈥淚 thought it was a place where I can change my name but it鈥檚 not. You still need to go to each areas [sic] (state, postal office, etc) and change your name. It鈥檚 useless place [sic] where they charge you money for nothing.鈥�

The Madison County, Alabama, sheriff鈥檚 office went as far as to issue a about Dillon鈥檚 ConcealedCarryServices.org, stating, 鈥淲e do not advise you to pay for information that is available to you from your sheriff鈥檚 office.鈥�

A warned victims of domestic violence about using the website to apply for restraining orders.

In 2019, Dillon transferred the ownership of Volentric to James Zugelder, admissions director at Dillon鈥檚 alma mater, Palm Beach Atlantic University. Dillon also claimed in to have donated $300,000 to the university to start a new master鈥檚 degree program in an unnamed discipline.

From Babylon Bee to Not the Bee

After purchasing The Babylon Bee from Adam Ford in 2018, Dillon launched a sister site called Not the Bee, with the tagline 鈥測our source for headlines that should be satire, but aren't.鈥�

Despite the claim to be 鈥渉umor-based,鈥� many Not the Bee stories feature strongly anti-人兽性交+ and anti-immigrant themes.

Nearly 600 stories on the site were tagged 鈥淚llegal Immigration,鈥� 鈥淏iden鈥檚 Border Bloodbath,鈥� 鈥淏order Crisis,鈥� 鈥淒eportation Now,鈥� 鈥淏uild the Wall鈥� or 鈥淕reat Replacement,鈥� while the word 鈥渋llegals,鈥� a used to refer to undocumented immigrants, was used in 109 stories.

More than 800 stories were tagged 鈥淭ransgenderism,鈥� 鈥淭ransgender Craze,鈥� 鈥淟GBT,鈥� 鈥淭rans Cult鈥� or 鈥淭rans the Kids.鈥� These stories frequently misgender and mock the appearances of trans people, and some refer to Bible quotes about 鈥渕illstones鈥� being tied around the necks of 人兽性交+ people. Another 96 stories were tagged 鈥淟ibs of TikTok,鈥� promoting content from Chaya Raichik, an anti-人兽性交+ extremist. Bee owner Seth Dillon stated on Twitter in 2022 that he 鈥渨orked out a deal鈥� with Raichik to and her videos.

In 2022, the social platform Twitter, now known as X, account for hateful posts aimed at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine, a transgender woman. Eight months later, after Elon Musk took over the platform, Twitter reversed its decision and reinstated the account. Not the Bee was not suspended by Twitter.

Not the Bee is not so secure

The Not the Bee website鈥檚 publicly viewable source code exposes contact information for several dozen authors, including the real names of many of the most prolific pseudonymous content creators. The source code, visible to anyone with a web browser and not requiring an account on the site to view, also revealed email addresses, IP addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, social media accounts, subscription and payment information, and more.

Dan Dillon, brother of Seth Dillon, for programming the Not the Bee website and told users that 鈥測our name/location/email will never be shared if you don鈥檛 want it to be.鈥� Dan Dillon鈥檚 exposed author data shows his email address, IP address, date of birth, phone number and billing information. These data points match those of other authors in the system, including 鈥淒avid Doppelganger鈥� (11 articles) and 鈥淭hinkr鈥� (5 articles). Thinkr is a technology company with Seth Dillon鈥檚 Volentric.

Dan Dillon replied to a request for comment by characterizing this article鈥檚 findings as 鈥渘ot interesting.鈥� He did not reply to a question regarding the exposure of pseudonymous authors鈥� personal information.

Adam Ford, founder of Babylon Bee and Disrn, a news website that was later folded into Not the Bee, has written about 140 articles for the site under his real name. Ford鈥檚 contact information in the data exposed by the website is similar or identical to that listed for several other pseudonymous authors, including 鈥淗arambe鈥� (1,330 articles), 鈥淗amilton Porter鈥� (1,074 articles, mostly about sports), 鈥淒oc Holliday鈥� (466 articles), 鈥淓dward Teach鈥� (374 articles, mostly about education) and 鈥淣eo鈥� (105 articles, mostly about technology). The source code for another author, 鈥淗olly Ash鈥� (569 articles), displayed information that connects to a YouTube profile featuring videos of Adam Ford.

Articles published under these pseudonyms call a pediatrician a 鈥渃hild butcherer,鈥� refer to a trans athlete as a 鈥渓ittle farce鈥� and described a Pride event at a major hospital as being 鈥渁bout being who you are,鈥� even if that鈥檚 a 鈥済roomer and predator.鈥�

Ford declined to respond to a request for comment and instead insulted the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Joel Berry, who is the managing editor of The Babylon Bee according to his LinkedIn profile, has written about 20 articles for the site under his own name. However, the data exposed about Berry by the website also matches to a pseudonymous writer, 鈥淒avy Crockett,鈥� who has written 140 articles, nearly all of which stoke fear about immigration with headlines about migrant crime waves and 鈥渋llegal invaders鈥� taking American jobs.

One such story written by 鈥淒avy Crockett鈥� used a supposedly found at a to bolster an argument that the racist 鈥済reat replacement鈥� conspiracy theory is actually 鈥渃old hard facts.鈥�

Berry did not respond to a request for comment.

Exposed site data shows that writers 鈥淗arris Rigby鈥� and 鈥淗arriet Rigby鈥� are Drew Anthony Glover and Julia 鈥淛ulie鈥� Auburn Glover Martinez, who are siblings originally from Alabama. Martinez has posted over 550 articles on Not the Bee. Glover, now residing in Tennessee, has posted nearly 3,000 articles, including pieces calling the 鈥済reat replacement鈥� conspiracy theory 鈥渙bvious,鈥� stating that a doctor is 鈥渁 professional baby killer鈥� and referring to 人兽性交+ Pride Month events as part of a 鈥渘ationwide effort to sexualize kids.鈥�

Glover and Martinez did not respond to requests for comment.

The user 鈥淧lanet Moron鈥� has maintained a separate web presence as a blogger for nearly 20 years, but since 2020 has written over 600 articles for Not the Bee. Exposed author information indicates that 鈥淧lanet Moron鈥� is the pseudonym of Jonathan D. Fotos, a fitness instructor from Arlington, Virginia. 鈥淧lanet Moron鈥� is a prolific writer on culture-war issues. One article mocks transgender children as 鈥渕entally ill tween[s]鈥� who are 鈥渢he economic lifeblood of the multi-billion-dollar trans industry.鈥�

Fotos did not respond to a request for comment.

鈥淒r. Subtilis鈥� has written nine pieces for the site. The author information exposed by the website matches to Withers Grant Horner II, a professor of English at The Master鈥檚 University. In at least one article, 鈥淒r. Subtilis鈥� confirms that . Articles published under his pseudonym contemptuously cover higher education. The writing mocks the former president of Harvard University for 鈥渨earing the costume of impressive intellectual prowess鈥� and for being a 鈥渟enior scholar who is caught lying.鈥�

Horner did not respond to a request for comment.

The author going by 鈥淐ardinal Pritchard鈥� has penned more than 1,700 articles. Exposed author data matches that of Taylor 鈥淭J鈥� Sellnow of Wisconsin. 鈥淐ardinal Pritchard鈥� writes articles calling 人兽性交+ Pride Month parade attendees 鈥減edos鈥� and deriding transgender people as a mutilation cult.

Sellnow did not respond to a request for comment.

Peter Heck has written over 600 articles for the site using his real name and profile photo. Heck is a public high school teacher who works for the Eastern Howard school system in Greentown, Indiana. Heck鈥檚 political activities were the subject of a discussing whether the relationship between church and state in Greentown schools was too close. that 鈥渢he Bible be taught, discussed, analyzed, explained and understood in every public school in the United States.鈥� On Not the Bee, Heck has referenced his position as an educator in articles that mock transgender children and call on teachers to intervene when students want to change names or pronouns, even if it represents a safety issue for the students.

Heck did not respond to a request for comment.

Elias-John Fernandez-Aubert contributed to this story.

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