New York (AFP)
Twitter and YouTube confirmed Friday to have cracked down on Steve Bannon after calls for the murder made by this former adviser to Donald Trump against several senior American officials, including Doctor Anthony Fauci.
The @WarRoomPandemic account, named after Mr. Bannon's online show, has been "permanently suspended for violating Twitter's Rules, particularly our policy on glorifying violence," Twitter reported in a statement.
YouTube has withdrawn for the same reasons the episode from the channel "Steve Bannon's War Room", which is however still active and has more than 200,000 subscribers.
"We will continue to be vigilant in implementing our policies in the post-election period," said Alex Joseph, a spokesperson for YouTube.
The channel will not be able to upload a new video for at least a week, YouTube said.
In an episode recorded Thursday, Mr. Bannon attacked Mr. Fauci, director of the Institute of Infectious Diseases, as well as FBI boss Christopher Wray, claiming to "skew their heads at the end of spades" and place them "on either side of the White House as a warning to federal bureaucrats."
Mr. Bannon, 66, was one of the architects of Donald Trump's successful presidential campaign in 2016 before being pushed out by the Republican billionaire.
Suspected along with three other people of having embezzled funds allegedly intended for the construction of a wall on the United States-Mexico border, Mr. Bannon was charged and arrested in late August.
He rejects these accusations.
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