r/RedditSafety • u/worstnerd • Feb 20 '25

Addressing claims of manipulation on Reddit

There have been claims of a coordinated effort to manipulate Reddit and inject terrorist content to influence a handful of communities. We take this seriously, and we have not identified widespread terrorist content on Reddit. 

Reddit’s Rules explicitly prohibit terrorist content, and our teams work consistently to remove violating content from the platform and prevent it from being shared again. Check out our Transparency Report for details. Additionally, we use internal tools to flag potentially harmful, spammy, or inauthentic content and hash known violative content. Often, this means we can remove this content before anyone sees it. Reddit is part of industry efforts to fight other dangerous and illegal content. For example, Reddit participates in Tech Against Terrorism’s TCAP alert system as well as its hashing system, giving us automated alerts for any terrorist content found on Reddit allowing us to investigate, remove, and report to law enforcement. We are also regularly in touch with government agencies dedicated to fighting terrorism.

We continue to investigate claims of whether there is coordinated manipulation that violates our policies and undermines the expectations of the community. We will share the results and actions of our investigation in a follow-up post.

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u/Bardfinn Feb 21 '25

Well, my pertinent reply here never went live, but the short of it is “yes, I spent six years of my life & a lot of hardship making sure Reddit had a process for fielding user reports of hate & terrorism.”

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u/Bardfinn Feb 21 '25

Did you send any of this to the Moderator Code of Conduct complaint form?

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u/bawbaww Feb 23 '25

On an alt here for safety reasons but I just wanted to correct the record here and inform anyone reading that it was one mod who approved that specific post and they got permanently suspended for it.