Facebook suspends Gareth Icke for comment about COVID: British former soccer player and sports broadcaster turned political commentator Gareth Icke took to Facebook in July 2020 to express his opinion about the COVID response. He posted: "Instead of marching on Poland, Hitler should have called ahead and said they'd be killing grandma if they didn't comply." Facebook's algorithm decided in April 2021 that this violated its "standards on dangerous individuals and organisations," and suspended Icke for 30 days after deleting the post.