Franklin Graham says that he was banned from posting on Facebook for 24 hours, two weeks ago. 

A spokesperson from Facebook has now told the Charlotte Observer that the social media giant is apologizing to Graham and that it was a mistake.

(Franklin Graham/Facebook) The ban came over a post that Graham made in 2016. That post was taken down and Graham was banned for violating Facebook’s policy that bans “dehumanizing language” and excluding people based on sexual orientation, race and other factors, according to the spokesperson and Facebook’s written policy.

"Well, now we know. Facebook has a secret rulebook for policing speech," Graham wrote in a post last Friday.

"I was banned from posting on Facebook last week for 24 hours. Why? Because of a post from back in 2016 about North Carolina’s House Bill 2 (the bathroom bill). Facebook said the post went against their 'community standards on hate speech.' Facebook is trying to define truth."

Graham pasted the text of the original post in last week's post.

"Since Facebook took down the 2016 post last week, I’ll copy it here so you can read it for yourself. Do you see any hate speech here?" he asked.

Many people have commented on Graham's post supporting him. However, a few have pushed back. One commenter, Albert Brewster, said that Graham does not practice the teachings of Christ. Karlis Umbris wrote, "Free speech does NOT mean hate speech."

Graham's post has been shared nearly 48,000 times, has over 10,000 comments, and 88,000 reactions.