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Bannon was once considered one of the most influential men in the Trump administration.
Steve Bannon, former chief strategist to US President Donald Trump, was banned from Twitter for “glorifying violence” amid the election results.
Bannon said that Trump, if re-elected, should fire the top infectious disease expert and the director of the FBI (the US federal police), and incited violence against them.
The permanent ban on Twitter comes as tech companies continue to crack down on misinformation.
Facebook shut down a large group that alleged fraud in the US elections and announced new measures to highlight posts with the legitimate result of the count.
Bannon, once one of the most powerful men in the White House, was Trump’s 2016 campaign boss and one of the top presidential advisers during the first months of his presidency.
On Thursday (11/5), he posted a video on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, in which he said that both Anthony Fauci – the face of the nation’s fight against coronavirus – and FBI Director Christopher Wray should be fired. . after Trump’s re-election and violence. He also asked to be beheaded.
“Now, actually, I want to go a step further, but I know that the President is a good-hearted and good-natured man. In fact, I would like to go back to the old days of the Tudors in England. In the two corners of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats: ‘Either you follow the program or time is running out, it’s time to stop playing,’ “he said.
President Trump expressed his frustration with the two men, clashing with Fauci over the pandemic and with Wray over what he considers a failure in the investigation of his opponent, Joe Biden.
Facebook and YouTube removed the video, but Twitter issued a total ban on Bannon’s account for violating its “glorification of violence” policy.
The account has been permanently suspended, rather than banned for a limited period of time, Twitter said in a statement.
Right-wing guru Bannon provided informal advice to federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PSL-SP) and supported Jair Bolsonaro’s (non-partisan) campaign for the presidency of Brazil in 2018.
Facebook ‘downgrade’ content
The Stop the Steal group on Facebook had about 350,000 members when the social network decided to withdraw it, describing the measure “exceptional.” He claimed he did this because he was “creating real world events” and “we saw troubling calls for violence from some members of the group,” Facebook said in a statement.
Facebook is now taking more steps to restrict the flow of “inaccurate claims” in order to “prevent this content from reaching more people.”
“This includes content downgrades on Facebook and Instagram that our systems predict could be misinformation, including allegations of denied voting. We are also limiting the distribution of live videos that may be election related on Facebook,” the company added.
While Trump continues to claim, without evidence, that there has been widespread vote-counting fraud, Facebook also said it would change its election notifications and circulate news about the intended winner, as most independent media projected the result. .
The same notice will be placed in the positions of both candidates.
Trump’s ‘special treatment’ could end
On the other hand, the financial news agency Bloomberg says that Twitter will eliminate the “special treatment” it gives to President Trump as a world leader, should Joe Biden win the presidency.
Twitter has specific rules for world leaders, which means that it typically doesn’t ban them for the same violations as ordinary users. Twitter maintains that those posts, even when they violate its rules, are important from a news point of view, with a few exceptions.
Instead, Twitter can tag the post of a world leader, hiding it from view and restricting participation, but leaving it visible to anyone who clicks on a content warning message.
This has been done repeatedly with Trump’s tweets, prompting reactions from the US president and his supporters.
But Trump would revert to regular user status if he lost the election, Bloomberg said, meaning his tweets could be removed or his account suspended for violations of Twitter policy.
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