Reddit announced on June 29 that it banned a total of 2,000 subreddits, 200 of which had 10 or more active users. The company also announced a content policy update that more explicitly bans speech that ‘promotes hate based on identity or vulnerability.’
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said the company banned r/The_Donald because it did not ‘abide by [Reddit’s] content policy in good faith.’
‘The community has consistently hosted and upvoted more rule-breaking content than average (Rule 1), antagonized us and other communities (Rules 2 and 8), and its mods have refused to meet our most basic expectations,’ Huffman said in a June 29 post. ‘Until now, we’ve worked in good faith to help them preserve the community as a space for its users—through warnings, mod changes, quarantining, and more.’
For years, r/The_Donald, which has no official ties to Trump or his campaign, promoted conspiracy theories like Pizzagate and let its users make racist, misogynistic, and violent posts. Reddit has taken action against the subreddit in the past, and many of the subreddit’s users and volunteer moderators have left Reddit altogether for other social media websites.
In addition to r/The_Donald, Reddit banned r/ChapoTrapHouse.
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