At all-hands, Zuckerberg said that Biden won the election, Bannon violated policies but not enough to shutter his account, Facebook isn't adverse to legislation
Mark Zuckerberg https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Luke O'Brien / @lukeobrien : Mark Zuckerberg could not make a better case for regulation. https://www.reuters.com/... Rat King / @mikeisaac : Zuckerberg has made no public statement to that effect yet. No posts in two weeks. https://t.co/d9Im8lswVn Kevin Roose / @kevinroose : I am so bored and tired of harping on Facebook for case-by-case decisions when the problems are clearly structural, but man, this does not seem like a particularly tough call. https://twitter.com/... Barbara Malmet / @b52malmet : Zuckerberg defends not suspending ex-Trump aide Bannon from Facebook: what does it actually take Mark? https://www.reuters.com/... @michaelrapaport : I'm literally suspended on Facebook right now and this Dog Shit is Gucci ? https://twitter.com/... David Pakman / @dpakman : My entire Facebook channel, the revenue on which we depend, has been 100% demonetized because I TALKED ABOUT what Bannon said. Bannon SAID IT and he hasn't been banned. https://twitter.com/... Mark R. Levin / @marklevinshow : And we care what you say, why, jerk? https://thehill.com/... Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : There's a long list of Facebook fuck-ups, but I think it's stories like these that ultimately historians will look at and say WTF. Anand Giridharadas / @anandwrites : There is no longer any honorable way to work at Facebook. If you're there, you're complicit. You know. https://twitter.com/... Jonathan Greenblatt / @jgreenblattadl : Infuriating. Bannon calling for the beheading of public officials on livestream is not enough to result in a suspension from @Facebook. How can this be? Freedom of expression isn't freedom to incite violence. #StopHateForProfit https://www.reuters.com/... Joe Scarborough / @joenbc : Hey Mark, what exactly does one have to do to be kicked off your democracy-destroying platform? Obviously, calling for the assassination of law enforcement officials and doctors is not enough. #RepealSection230 https://twitter.com/... Jason Kint / @jason_kint : Joel Kaplan and Peter Thiel win again as this is false. Zuckerberg can stick with his bear-hug of free expression but he's an autocrat over a private platform in which Bannon has violated enough of FB's policy to be booted off. Own it. Don't be spineless spinning your employees. https://twitter.com/... Evelyn Douek / @evelyndouek : @OversightBoard Regardless, Facebook should be over-referring cases right now, while the Board's jurisdiction is so limited, and leaving it up to the Board itself to decide what cases to take. Otherwise it is still holding the reins too tight. Evelyn Douek / @evelyndouek : This decision is outside the @OversightBoard's power to review, as both a “leave-up” (not take-down) and a decision about a profile, not an individual piece of content. Unless Facebook refers it. https://twitter.com/... Mehdi Hasan / @mehdirhasan : Thanks Zuckerberg! #enabler https://twitter.com/... Parker Molloy / @parkermolloy : Bannon called for the beheading of Fauci and the FBI director. What... if that doesn't earn a ban, what sort of stuff does one need to do in order to get banned from Facebook? https://www.reuters.com/... Tom Hearden / @followtheh : A national figure calling for an opponent's beheading does not justify an $FB account suspension per the company's CEO. See how crazy it reads when you write it as a straight headline. https://twitter.com/... Shaun King / @shaunking : Not sure any leader in the world has protected more bigots and white supremacists than Zuck. He bends over backwards for them. https://twitter.com/... @qasimrashid : Calling for murder & genocide is NOT free speech. Rohingya genocide proved Facebook tolerating violence enables violence. It is clear we need regulation for Facebook. One genocide is one too many. We cannot afford to relive the horror's of Facebook's deliberate malfeasance. Ken Tremendous / @kentremendous : Congrats to Zuckerberg and everyone @Facebook for this decision. Everyone deserves an 80,000th chance. https://twitter.com/... Dr Kirstin Ferguson / @kirstinferguson : Given Facebook has previously suspended mothers for sharing pictures of them breastfeeding, this makes sense .... https://twitter.com/... Jesse Lehrich / @jesselehrich : now I'm curious — how many times *do* you have to call for beheading the FBI director to earn a @Facebook ban? https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/... Kathy Griffin / @kathygriffin : Who the fuck is doing the hiring at Facebook? Jesus, what a shit show. https://twitter.com/... HydroxyCoreyQuinn / @quinnypig : Meanwhile if I were to even *JOKE* about harm befalling Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter would rightly suspend my account until I took it down. THAT is the difference between Facebook and Twitter as media platforms. https://twitter.com/... Roger McNamee / @moonalice : When FB says it removed a problematic page or Group, that is seldom the end of the story. QAnon, and StopTheSteal took a hit, but continue to operate. Bannon remains unscratched. https://twitter.com/... Aaron Kessler / @akesslerdc : So, threatening to cut 2 people's heads off isn't enough? Maybe there's like a “3 heads and you're out” rule at #Facebook... https://twitter.com/... Roger McNamee / @moonalice : .@chrisinsilico got banned by FB for making them look bad in front of regulators. Bannon incited violence against senior members of the government ... but FB thinks that is fine. https://twitter.com/... Edward Norton / @edwardnorton : Read as: ‘We have no standards other than financial maximization.’ Nobody with a conscience or any sense of obligation to defend American democracy should be using Facebook, no matter how it benefits them. https://twitter.com/... @qasimrashid : Facebook admitted to enabling Rohingya genocide, rape, & displacement of 700K innocent people Now, Zuckerberg holds that Steve Bannon calling for the beheading of Dr. Fauci & FBI Director Wray is not a violation enough to suspended Bannon from Facebook https://www.reuters.com/... Olga Lautman / @olganyc1211 : Really @Facebook Bannon saying that government officials should be executed isn't enough of a violation? No wonder Facebook is a staging ground for domestic terrorists plotting domestic attacks. https://twitter.com/... Clara Jeffery / @clarajeffery : So calling for beheading Fauci isn't grounds for suspension? What kind of moral shitshow is Facebook. Just appalling. https://twitter.com/... Adam Best / @adamcbest : Zuckerberg is cool with Steve Bannon threatening to behead people. This is why it's ridiculous that conservatives whine about Facebook allegedly censoring them. https://twitter.com/... Dan Pfeiffer / @danpfeiffer : Facebook is such a terribly destructive force in American life, because that is apparently what Mark Zuckerberg wants https://twitter.com/... Carole Cadwalladr / @carolecadwalla : Well there you have it. From the horse's mouth. Zuck explains why calling for a beheading on Facebook comes ‘close to the line’ but ‘does not cross the line’. Thought experiment, Facebook: maybe the line *is in the wrong place* 🤔 https://www.reuters.com/... Keith Olbermann / @keitholbermann : This would be a good day to delete your Facebook account. https://twitter.com/... Eric Garland / @ericgarland : Facebook is Kremlin malware. Delete it. https://twitter.com/... Tommy Vietor / @tvietor08 : So...if threatening to behead US government officials does NOT violate Facebook's rules, what does? https://twitter.com/... @youranoncentral : Mark Zuckerberg was recorded saying Steve Bannon, who called for the decapitation of FBI Director Wray and Dr. Fauci, has not violated enough policies for suspension. #Facebook has chosen to give Bannon a platform despite calls for violence. Report: https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/... @slpng_giants : Absolutely infuriating. Bannon talked about assassinating two federal officials and was caught running a bot network on their platform in the same week!!! What a fucking joke. @facebook is a cesspool that deserves every bit of regulation that's coming https://www.reuters.com/... Ryan Mac / @rmac18 : Just another fun day at Facebook talking about what Zuckerberg's plants are named, sheep-goat hybrids, election misinformation, and why a Trump surrogate wasn't banned for calling for the beheadings of government officials https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Chelsea Clinton / @chelseaclinton : If suggesting two public servants - or anyone - should be beheaded isn't grounds for @facebook suspension in Mark Zuckerberg's judgment, what would be? Three people threatened with beheading? https://twitter.com/... Don Winslow / @donwinslow : Dear @SachaBaronCohen You have been at the forefront of calling out Facebook and Zuckerberg. Can you retweet this insanity? https://twitter.com/... Roger McNamee / @moonalice : Now we know: from Mark Zuckerberg's point view, calling for the beheading of Fauci and Wray does not violate FB's terms of service. This is a compelling argument for government setting the terms of service for platforms. https://twitter.com/...
The third thread matters most: Zuckerberg saying Facebook "isn't adverse to legislation," coming months after he pushed back on rumors of any deal with Trump, reads as pre-positioning the company for the regulatory wave its own case-by-case calls keep inviting.
First-order effects
Bannon retains his Facebook account despite confirmed policy violations, setting the enforcement threshold other high-profile violators will now be measured against.
Facebook employees heard their CEO concede the election result internally while the company's public posture remains unchanged, deepening the gap between all-hands messaging and product decisions.
Second-order effects
Legislators gain a ready-made argument for regulation from Zuckerberg's own "not adverse" framing, since the company has effectively conceded that external rules could govern what it refuses to enforce itself.
Rival platforms facing similar Bannon-style cases must decide whether to match Facebook's leniency or differentiate with stricter suspensions, turning individual enforcement calls into competitive positioning.
Third-order effects
If each contested call resolves toward inaction for powerful figures, the structural outcome is moderation authority migrating away from internal case-by-case judgment toward formal oversight bodies and legislation — precisely the shift Zuckerberg's concession anticipates.
A repeat of the 2016-to-2020 pattern — execs alarmed, CEO minimizing, policy rules announced but thinly enforced — would cement the view that platform self-governance cannot arbitrate political speech, hardening bipartisan appetite for distribution-layer liability frameworks.
The trend: Platform self-governance of political speech is steadily losing credibility through high-profile non-decisions, pushing moderation authority toward regulators and oversight structures.
Mark Zuckerberg told an all-staff meeting that Steve Bannon has not violated enough policies to be suspended from Facebook. The ex-Trump adviser suggested in a now-removed video that FBI Director Christopher Wray and Dr. Anthony Fauci should be beheaded https://www.reuters.com/..…
Steve Bannon can't get banned from Facebook even when calling for beheadings; meanwhile my 95yo grandmother still can't get UNBANNED from Facebook for the last 7 years because she ran into trouble changing her email address.
Hello @OversightBoard, Here's a case for you. Steve Bannon is still on Facebook. After using Facebook to call for the beheadings of NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci and FBI Director Christopher Wray. Any plans to oversee this?? @HelleThorning_S @arusbridger @nick_clegg https://tw…
I've spent the past week interviewing those running Stop the Steal/ recount Facebook groups overrun with viral disinformation about voting and rigged elections- bubbling in social media feeds for weeks + promoted by public figures. Groups removed for threats, but not disinfo. htt…
READ THIS Mark Zuckerberg told an all-staff meeting that Steve Bannon has not violated enough policies to be suspended from Facebook. The ex-Trump adviser suggested in a now-removed video that FBI Director Wray and Dr. Anthony Fauci should be beheaded https://www.reuters.com/...
Good grief! Show a nipple in an artful b/w photograph and you get banned. Suggest beheading of public figures and you are “not violating enough policies”? How terribly fucked do your values and priorities have to be to come to this conclusion?? #Facebook https://twitter.com/...
ZUCKERBERG! Steve Bannon HAS VIOLATED ENOUGH policies to be suspended from Facebook. “We have specific rules around how many times you need to violate certain policies before we will deactivate your account completely” Zuckerberg said. Let's read your “Community Guidelines”: http…
According to Mark Zuckerberg, Bannon calling for the *beheading* of Dr. Fauci does not violate Facebook's standards. Just going to point out that I got banned by Facebook for making them look bad to US regulators, which obviously is far far worse. https://twitter.com/...
I am so bored and tired of harping on Facebook for case-by-case decisions when the problems are clearly structural, but man, this does not seem like a particularly tough call. https://twitter.com/...
My entire Facebook channel, the revenue on which we depend, has been 100% demonetized because I TALKED ABOUT what Bannon said. Bannon SAID IT and he hasn't been banned. https://twitter.com/...
Infuriating. Bannon calling for the beheading of public officials on livestream is not enough to result in a suspension from @Facebook. How can this be? Freedom of expression isn't freedom to incite violence. #StopHateForProfit https://www.reuters.com/...
Hey Mark, what exactly does one have to do to be kicked off your democracy-destroying platform? Obviously, calling for the assassination of law enforcement officials and doctors is not enough. #RepealSection230 https://twitter.com/...
Joel Kaplan and Peter Thiel win again as this is false. Zuckerberg can stick with his bear-hug of free expression but he's an autocrat over a private platform in which Bannon has violated enough of FB's policy to be booted off. Own it. Don't be spineless spinning your employees. …
@OversightBoard Regardless, Facebook should be over-referring cases right now, while the Board's jurisdiction is so limited, and leaving it up to the Board itself to decide what cases to take. Otherwise it is still holding the reins too tight.
This decision is outside the @OversightBoard's power to review, as both a “leave-up” (not take-down) and a decision about a profile, not an individual piece of content. Unless Facebook refers it. https://twitter.com/...
Bannon called for the beheading of Fauci and the FBI director. What... if that doesn't earn a ban, what sort of stuff does one need to do in order to get banned from Facebook? https://www.reuters.com/...
A national figure calling for an opponent's beheading does not justify an $FB account suspension per the company's CEO. See how crazy it reads when you write it as a straight headline. https://twitter.com/...
Calling for murder & genocide is NOT free speech. Rohingya genocide proved Facebook tolerating violence enables violence. It is clear we need regulation for Facebook. One genocide is one too many. We cannot afford to relive the horror's of Facebook's deliberate malfeasance.
now I'm curious — how many times *do* you have to call for beheading the FBI director to earn a @Facebook ban? https://www.reuters.com/... https://twitter.com/...
Meanwhile if I were to even *JOKE* about harm befalling Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter would rightly suspend my account until I took it down. THAT is the difference between Facebook and Twitter as media platforms. https://twitter.com/...
When FB says it removed a problematic page or Group, that is seldom the end of the story. QAnon, and StopTheSteal took a hit, but continue to operate. Bannon remains unscratched. https://twitter.com/...
.@chrisinsilico got banned by FB for making them look bad in front of regulators. Bannon incited violence against senior members of the government ... but FB thinks that is fine. https://twitter.com/...
Read as: ‘We have no standards other than financial maximization.’ Nobody with a conscience or any sense of obligation to defend American democracy should be using Facebook, no matter how it benefits them. https://twitter.com/...
Facebook admitted to enabling Rohingya genocide, rape, & displacement of 700K innocent people Now, Zuckerberg holds that Steve Bannon calling for the beheading of Dr. Fauci & FBI Director Wray is not a violation enough to suspended Bannon from Facebook https://www.reuters.com/...
Really @Facebook Bannon saying that government officials should be executed isn't enough of a violation? No wonder Facebook is a staging ground for domestic terrorists plotting domestic attacks. https://twitter.com/...
Zuckerberg is cool with Steve Bannon threatening to behead people. This is why it's ridiculous that conservatives whine about Facebook allegedly censoring them. https://twitter.com/...
Well there you have it. From the horse's mouth. Zuck explains why calling for a beheading on Facebook comes ‘close to the line’ but ‘does not cross the line’. Thought experiment, Facebook: maybe the line *is in the wrong place* 🤔 https://www.reuters.com/...
Mark Zuckerberg was recorded saying Steve Bannon, who called for the decapitation of FBI Director Wray and Dr. Fauci, has not violated enough policies for suspension. #Facebook has chosen to give Bannon a platform despite calls for violence. Report: https://www.reuters.com/... ht…
Absolutely infuriating. Bannon talked about assassinating two federal officials and was caught running a bot network on their platform in the same week!!! What a fucking joke. @facebook is a cesspool that deserves every bit of regulation that's coming https://www.reuters.com/...
Just another fun day at Facebook talking about what Zuckerberg's plants are named, sheep-goat hybrids, election misinformation, and why a Trump surrogate wasn't banned for calling for the beheadings of government officials https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
If suggesting two public servants - or anyone - should be beheaded isn't grounds for @facebook suspension in Mark Zuckerberg's judgment, what would be? Three people threatened with beheading? https://twitter.com/...
Now we know: from Mark Zuckerberg's point view, calling for the beheading of Fauci and Wray does not violate FB's terms of service. This is a compelling argument for government setting the terms of service for platforms. https://twitter.com/...