The Facebook CEO confirmed that the posts would be banned to ABC's George Stephanopoulos on a segment of Good Morning America.

Stephanopoulos asked Zuckerberg how the company deals "with the fact that Facebook is now being used to organize a lot of these protests to defy social distancing guidelines in states. If somebody trying to organize something like that, does that qualify as harmful misinformation?"

"We do classify that as harmful misinformation and we take that down," confirmed Zuckerberg, while at the same time saying that it's important "that people can debate policies."

A Facebook spokesman confirmed to CNN that planned protests in California, New Jersey, and Nebraska were having their pages removed from Facebook at the request of state authorities.

This comes after President Trump gave his support to protesters in several states who are demonstrating against their governors' stay-at-home orders, including a 3,000-strong protest in Lansing, Michigan. Michigan protesters have used Facebook to organize.