Inside academia, Hollywood, and mainstream media, anti-conservative and anti-Christian bias is nothing new. The latest victim of this bias is the extremely popular Christian satire site, The Babylon Bee.

Facebook threatened to decrease the Bee’s audience if it didn’t stop posting “false news,” according to The Daily Caller. The social media giant later admitted the threat was an error — but still flagged many satirical posts with “fact check” warnings from Snopes, as the Facebook post below indicates.

“The Bee is like humor site ‘The Onion,’ but for Christians,” one Boston-area sales professional and occasional Babylon Bee reader, told LifeZette. “I don’t see them flagging ‘The Onion,’ however — because that publication’s message isn’t ‘threatening.’ Yet faith is threatening to so many of these social media giants. ‘Heaven forbid Christianity spread through the internet’ seems to be their position.”

In a recent blog post, Adam Ford, who sold the Bee to Christian entrepreneur Seth Dillon, clearly stated his rational for the move while rebuking Facebook and Google.

“I’ve thought about this deeply and carefully, and I think the centralization of the internet is one of the greatest threats to the spread of the Gospel and the well-being of mankind that we face today. Maybe [it’s] the single biggest threat.”

He added, “It is tyranny over information. It’s a handful of people who are hostile to the Christian message and the plight of the individual [in terms of] deciding what’s good and bad, true and false. It’s never been seen before on this scale.”

He added, “I am no conspiracy theorist — never have been. From where I sit, this danger is as clear as day.”

Snopes actually Fact Checks the Babylon Bee. ?

Posted by Elisha Todd on Friday, March 2, 2018

Rest assured, however: Adam Ford is not sailing into an obscure sunset.

Instead, he’ll be running the Drudge Report-like aggregator, Christian Daily Reporter (CDR), which he launched early this year.

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“The feeling of having my own playground, instead of playing in others’ playground by their rules, is hard to describe,” said Ford in his blog post.

“It’s amazing. CDR continues to grow as people come directly to it because they want to — not because Facebook decided to put a link in their feed, or because Google chose to include it in their search results,” he noted. “It harkens back to a time before the internet was centralized and controlled by a few behemoths (who, by the way, don’t like Christians and don’t like conservatives).”

Elizabeth Economou is a former CNBC staff writer and adjunct professor. Follow her on Twitter.