Zuckerberg: Bannon’s comments about beheading Fauci “clearly did not cross the line”

'The offences... clearly did not cross the line,' Mark Zuckerburg tells all-staff meeting

California (QNN)- Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg told an all-staff meeting on Thursday that former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon had not violated enough of the company’s policies to justify his suspension when he called for beheading two senior US officials, according to a recording heard by Reuters.

According to the recording, Zuckerberg said that Bannon “came close” but “did not cross the line” that would have led to an account suspension. The company took down Bannon’s video but allowed his page to remain up. Meanwhile, Twitter banned Bannon last week over the same content.

We have specific rules around how many times you need to violate certain policies before we will deactivate your account completely,” Zuckerberg said, according to Reuters. “While the offenses here, I think, came close to crossing that line, they clearly did not cross the line.”

Bannon suggested in a video posted on Nov. 5 that FBI Director Christopher Wray and government infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci should be beheaded, saying they had been disloyal to US President Donald Trump, who last week lost his re-election bid to Biden.

“I’d put the heads on pikes. Right. I’d put them at the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats. You either get with the program or you are gone,” Bannon said in the video.

Facebook spokesman Andy Stone said the company would take further action against Bannon’s page “if there are additional violations.”

Biden told The New York Times in December last year that he had “never been a fan of Facebook” and considered Zuckerberg “a real problem.”

Facebook has been repeatedly accused of bias towards the right-wing. It has been cooperating with the Israeli government to remove content the latter finds objectionable while allowing anti-Palestinian content.

In 2014, just before the occupation state started bombing Gaza, Ayelet Shaked, an extreme right-wing Israeli parliamentarian and former Minister of Justice, posted a Facebook message stating that the mothers of Palestinian fighters should be killed and their homes destroyed.

Facebook does not make explicit its policies of censorship or the details of how it shares users’ account information with governments. However, it does report the number of requests for user data it receives from governments, and the number of cases to which it responds. Between January and June 2016, Facebook responded positively to more than 70 percent of Israel’s 432 requests for user data. By regional comparison, it responded positively to 16 percent of such requests from the Jordanian government, though Jordan asked for only 25 users’ data.

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