After the disturbing deplatforming of free speech social media website, Parler, a former Facebook executive is now calling for conservative news channels, OANN and Newsmax to be removed by carriers such as Verizon and AT&T. 

Speaking on CNN yesterday, former Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos suggested the time has come to “turn down the capability of…Conservative influencers to reach these huge audiences.

The Daily Caller reports:

Discussing the ongoing political polarization in America in the wake of the November election and the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, Stamos suggested that since people now “are able to seek out the information that makes them feel good,” an incentive exists for some outlets to “become more and more radical.”

“One of the places you can see this is on the fact that you now have competitors to Fox News on their right, OANN and Newsmax, which are carried by all the major cable networks, who are trying now to outflank Fox on the right because the moment Fox [News] introduced any kind of realism into their reporting, immediately a bunch of people chose to put themselves into a sealed ecosystem,” Stamos said. “They can do that both on cable. They can do it online, and that becomes a huge challenge in figuring out how do you bring people back into the mainstream of fact-based reporting and try to get us back into the same consensual reality.”

This former Facebook employee straight up calls for tech companies to use the same tactics they used against ISIS on conservative competitors and deplatform OAN and Newsmax.

Brian Stelter and Chris Krebs nod along https://t.co/YKW0zKuDwD

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 17, 2021

Stamos said social media companies must collaborate together to take on extremism “in the same way they worked on ISIS.”

“There was a collaboration between the tech companies and law enforcement to make it impossible for them to use the internet to recruit and radicalize mostly young Muslim men at the same around the world,” he said. “Now we’re talking about the domestic audience in the United States.”

Stamos said the OANN and Newsmax “problem” will have to be figured out. 

“…I’m not sure we need Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, and such to be bringing them into tens of millions of homes,” he said.

Read the full report from the Daily Caller HERE.