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A line of studies, beginning with analysis of Reddit's 2015 ban wave, measured whether removing hate communities reduced hateful activity and tracked where displaced users migrated when they did not disappear.
A January 2022 TIME investigation, based on 19 international moderators, documented that Reddit allowed hate speech to flourish in non-English and non-US communities, with company staff repeatedly ignoring moderator warnings.
Network measurements confirm that reddit.com is blocked on UAE networks, with the country's ISPs returning the platform as unreachable since around 2022 and no official reason given.
After a disastrous Fox News interview in January 2022, r/antiwork went private and a breakaway community, r/WorkReform, exploded to hundreds of thousands of members within a day, exposing a deep rift over the movement's identity.
RPAN, Reddit's quirky public-access-television-style live-streaming experiment launched in 2019, built a small but devoted broadcaster community before Reddit discontinued it on 15 November 2022, redirecting effort toward more monetizable video.
On January 25, 2022, r/antiwork moderator Doreen Ford gave a widely ridiculed live Fox News interview to Jesse Watters, triggering mass backlash that pushed the 1.7-million-member subreddit to go private and spawned the breakaway r/WorkReform.
During Reddit's 2022 r/place collaborative pixel event, organized Twitch streamers led by xQc directed hundreds of thousands of viewers to seize and erase canvas territory, and Reddit administrators stepped in to cover xQc's artwork with a black box — the first time admins removed r/place art that was not hate speech.
The influencer-promoted 'Save the Kids' charity token, exposed as a pump-and-dump, was partly organized through Reddit — where YouTuber Sam Pepper promoted the project, built its moderator team, and reportedly handled the presale.
As r/wallstreetbets drove the January 2021 GameStop short squeeze, Discord banned the community's server for repeated hate-speech violations, and days later a group of returning moderators attempted to seize control of the subreddit to cash in on a movie deal, prompting Reddit to remove them.
Days after the GameStop squeeze, an investor filed a proposed securities-fraud class action alleging Keith Gill ('DeepFuckingValue'/'Roaring Kitty') hid that he was a licensed professional while promoting GameStop to retail traders.
On Feb. 18, 2021, the r/wallstreetbets figure 'DeepFuckingValue' testified before the House Financial Services Committee, denying he coordinated the GameStop squeeze and insisting he was an ordinary investor.
r/India, one of the largest country subreddits, has faced persistent accusations of opaque, politically biased moderation, including shadowbans and selective deletions around sensitive national events.