Mark Zuckerberg reportedly told his employees that Steve Bannon, a former adviser to the president, has not “crossed the line” to be totally suspended from the platform.
“We have specific rules around how many times you need to violate certain policies before we will deactivate your account completely,” he said, Reuters reported, citing audio from a staff call on Thursday. “While the offenses here, I think, came close to crossing that line, they clearly did not cross the line.”
Bannon suggested that Christopher Wray, the director of the FBI, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, should be beheaded.
“I’d actually like to go back to the old times of Tudor England,” Bannon said on Nov. 5. “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’re gone.”
The video was removed from Facebook. Twitter permanently suspended Bannon from its platform.
Andy Stone, Facebook’s policy communications director, told Reuters that the company would take further action against his page “if there are additional violations.”
The platform has come under fire recently for its policies about political advertising, which some see as allowing hateful speech.
Bannon joined the Trump campaign in August 2016 before being forced to resign from his post at the White House a year later. In August of this year, Bannon was arrested and charged with defrauding donors to a private fundraising effort called We Build the Wall.
