Disgraced celebrity chef Pete Evans has had his Facebook page removed for sharing misinformation about COVID-19.
The 47-year-old has endured a dramatic career implosion in the washout of the pandemic and has come under fire for spurting controversial and often harmful opinions on his social media pages.
Evans’ Facebook page boasted more than 1.5million likes, with his followers in recent times being subject to the delusional chef’s coronavirus conspiracy theories and bizarre rants.
But the social media giant has had enough, with a search for Evans’ Facebook page now returning a page not found extension.
Chef Pete Evans (pictured) has had his Facebook page deleted for spreading misinformation
A Facebook company spokesperson told Daily Mail Australia Evans’ page was removed due to repeated violations of their misinformation and harm policy.
‘We don’t allow anyone to share misinformation about COVID-19 that could lead to imminent physical harm or COVID-19 vaccines that have been debunked by health experts,’ the spokesperson said.
‘We have clear policies against this type of content and we’ve removed Chef Pete Evans’ Facebook Page for repeated violations of these policies.’
Evans took to Twitter on Wednesday afternoon to address the incident.
‘This is an extremely serious threat to my business model!’ he wrote.
Evans’ fall from grace has been well documented including in November being dropped by more than a dozen sponsors in less than 24 hours after posting a Neo-Nazi meme to social media.
The list included his publisher Pan Macmillan, bookstore Dymocks, BIG W, Coles, kitchenware company Baccarat, Woolworths, House homewares, Target, Kmart, Booktopia, David Jones and Channel 10’s I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!
The meme was a cartoon of a caterpillar wearing a MAGA cap and a butterfly with the neo-Nazi Black Sun emblem on its wing – with the suggestion being that neo-Nazism is the natural evolution for Donald Trump supporters.
Evans is an enthusiastic supporter of the former president and advocates the baseless claim that Joe Biden only won the 2020 election due to voter fraud.
The Black Sun symbol became infamous after it was introduced by top-ranking Nazi Heinrich Himmler during World War II.
The symbol has since been adopted by numerous neo-Nazi groups, and by Christchurch mosque shooter Brenton Tarrant.
Evans confirmed he was aware of the meaning of the symbol when a fan commented after recognising it, with Evans responding: ‘I was waiting for someone to see that.’
Facebook said Evans (pictured) had repeatedly breached their misinformation and harm policy
A month earlier, he encouraged another Facebook user to ‘have a look at the true history of Germany’.
The disgraced chef also on Thursday urged Sydneysiders to ‘not get tested’ for COVID-19 amid the growing Northern Beaches cluster.
Evans shared an article to his Facebook page about the first two cases in the area – before it quickly jumped to 17 later in the day.
‘Outbreak… Two cases,’ Evans captioned the post, followed by clown-face emojis.
‘Can you see where this is heading again? Testing for the common cold? Do not get tested.’
Evans is not a trained doctor and has no medical qualifications.
