CEO refuses to delete tweet.

The Babylon Bee has been suspended by Twitter over a parody article about transgender assistant secretary for health Rachel Levine.

The website's CEO Seth Dillon posted a series of tweets about the suspension, which was dished out for violating Twitter's rules "against hateful conduct."

Under Twitter rules, the offending tweet must be deleted in order to start a 12 hour countdown clock to enable the account to be restored.