In the continuing asymmetric war of right-wing and leftist humor(s) a minor site like Babylon Bee (America Offers To Trade All Of Its Communists For Democratic Protesters In Hong Kong) tries so hard to be a RW Onion which pretty much makes it some kind of shallot or garlic clove.
Snopes tried to measure the gullibility.
RW readers are less likely to be skeptical because in some cases they lack the ability to process information logically, but mainly because they are truly desperate for bias-reinforcing stories over objective truth.
Like the lack of humorous RW editorial cartoons, irony tends to get lost on the RW side of the spectrum. Darn those propaganda effects and source credibility, media framing and fact-construction do tend to favor those audiences aware of reflexivity.
Satirical articles like those found on The Babylon Bee frequently showed up in our survey. In fact, stories published by The Bee were among the most shared factually inaccurate content in almost every survey we conducted. On one survey, The Babylon Bee had articles relating to five different falsehoods.
Members of both parties failed to recognize that The Babylon Bee is satire, but Republicans were considerably more likely to do so. Of the 23 falsehoods that came from The Bee, eight were confidently believed by at least 15% of Republican respondents. One of the most widely believed falsehoods was based on a series of made-up quotes attributed to Rep. Ilhan Omar. A satirical article that suggested that Sen. Bernie Sanders had criticized the billionaire who paid off Morehouse College graduates’ student debt was another falsehood that Republicans fell for.
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