Skip to content

Lyriqal

Black Culture and Hip Hop News 24/7

Primary Menu
  • Home
  • Music 🎧
  • Gossip
  • Music Videos
  • Download App
  • More Apps
  • Shop
  • Home
  • 2020
  • November
  • 13
  • Mark Zuckerberg Defends Not Banning Steve Bannon From Facebook After He Called For Dr. Fauci And The FBI Director To Be Beheaded

Mark Zuckerberg Defends Not Banning Steve Bannon From Facebook After He Called For Dr. Fauci And The FBI Director To Be Beheaded

lyriqal November 13, 2020 2 min read

Getty Image

Facebook is under fire once again for decisions regarding content shared on the massive social media network, this time after Steve Bannon’s inflammatory comments that saw his profiles removed from other sites. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was forced to defend the company’s decision not to ban Bannon from the network, both the public and privately during a weekly forum with company employees.
According to Reuters, Zuckerberg says the company will not remove Bannon from the site completely, though it did delete a video he posted last week. The move, and Zuckerberg’s decision to defend it and by extension Bannon, comes after a November 5 video in which the former Breitbart editor and Trump White House employee said FBI director Christopher Wray and Dr. Anthony Fauci should be beheaded for being disloyal to Trump.
“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 removed the video but left up Bannon’s page, which has about 175,000 followers. 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. “While the offenses here, I think, came close to crossing that line, they clearly did not cross the line.”
Zuckerberg apparently also addressed president-elect Joe Biden and comments he made on the election trail about both Facebook and Zuckerberg, who he called “a real problem.” Biden admitted that he’s no fan of Facebook, which has been used by both foreign countries like Russia and others to spread disinformation, fuel baseless conspiracy theories like QAnon and attack liberal politicians.
While Twitter has flagged election misinformation and several tweets from Donald Trump in the lead-up and aftermath of the election, many have been critical of Facebook’s more lax policy on all of the above. It doesn’t seem like Zuckerberg’s comments indicate anything will change with Facebook, which means that criticism both inside and out of the company will continue as well.
[via Reuters]

Continue Reading

Previous: A Blind Taste Test Of Diageo’s Best Single Malt Scotches For 2020
Next: ‘Space Force’ Will Return On Netflix With A Slimmed-Down Budget

Related Stories

People Aren’t Buying Amy Coney Barrett’s Claim That The Supreme Court Isn’t Filled With ‘Partisan Hacks’ People Aren’t Buying Amy Coney Barrett’s Claim That The Supreme Court Isn’t Filled With ‘Partisan Hacks’
3 min read

People Aren’t Buying Amy Coney Barrett’s Claim That The Supreme Court Isn’t Filled With ‘Partisan Hacks’

September 14, 2021
AOC Showed Up At The Met Gala With A Dress That Read ‘Tax The Rich,’ And People Lost It AOC Showed Up At The Met Gala With A Dress That Read ‘Tax The Rich,’ And People Lost It
3 min read

AOC Showed Up At The Met Gala With A Dress That Read ‘Tax The Rich,’ And People Lost It

September 14, 2021
Peyton And Eli Manning Tried Their Best To Work Through A Fire Alarm Going Off On Their MNF Broadcast Peyton And Eli Manning Tried Their Best To Work Through A Fire Alarm Going Off On Their MNF Broadcast
2 min read

Peyton And Eli Manning Tried Their Best To Work Through A Fire Alarm Going Off On Their MNF Broadcast

September 14, 2021

Catch Up

The Source Magazine Remembers Trayvon Martin On What Would’ve Been His 28th Birthday The Source Magazine Remembers Trayvon Martin On What Would’ve Been His 28th Birthday
1 min read

The Source Magazine Remembers Trayvon Martin On What Would’ve Been His 28th Birthday

February 6, 2023
Missy Elliott Makes History With Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Nomination, Receives Global Impact Award With Dr. Dre And Lil Wayne <div>Missy Elliott Makes History With Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Nomination, Receives Global Impact Award With Dr. Dre And Lil Wayne</div>
4 min read

Missy Elliott Makes History With Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame Nomination, Receives Global Impact Award With Dr. Dre And Lil Wayne

February 5, 2023
Latto Seemingly Confirms Love & Loyalty To Alleged Lover 21 Savage With Neck Tattoo of His Name <div>Latto Seemingly Confirms Love & Loyalty To Alleged Lover 21 Savage With Neck Tattoo of His Name</div>
3 min read

Latto Seemingly Confirms Love & Loyalty To Alleged Lover 21 Savage With Neck Tattoo of His Name

February 5, 2023
[WATCH] Busta Rhymes Salutes Slick Rick for His GRAMMYs Lifetime Achievement Award [WATCH] Busta Rhymes Salutes Slick Rick for His GRAMMYs Lifetime Achievement Award
1 min read

[WATCH] Busta Rhymes Salutes Slick Rick for His GRAMMYs Lifetime Achievement Award

February 5, 2023
Copyright © All rights reserved. | MoreNews by AF themes.