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In 2018 Dylan Jarrell of Kentucky used an anonymous Reddit account to post statements signaling a planned school shooting; he was stopped while equipped to carry one out, pleaded guilty to federal charges in 2019, and was sentenced to 120 months in July 2020.
Robert Allam, known as GallowBoob, became one of Reddit's highest-karma users and a moderator of dozens of large subreddits, drawing accusations of mass self-promotion and karma farming before a viral 'power mod' list triggered harassment and his eventual withdrawal from the platform.
After r/Screenwriting users called certain screenwriting competitions scams, the contests' operator sued the subreddit's volunteer moderator and 50+ unnamed users for defamation; the moderator was dismissed under Section 230.
r/ChapoTrapHouse, the left-wing 'dirtbag left' podcast community, was banned on June 29, 2020 in Reddit's mass content-policy purge — the most prominent non-right-wing subreddit removed that day.
r/DarkHumorAndMemes was one of the most active subreddits removed in Reddit's June 29, 2020 mass purge, banned under the new rule against hate based on identity for using a 'dark humor' framing to host identity-based hate.
Reddit banned r/GenderCritical, its largest gender-critical feminist community (~64,000 members), on June 29, 2020 under a new rule against hate based on identity, characterizing the sub as anti-transgender.
On June 29, 2020 Reddit rewrote its content policy into eight explicit rules and banned roughly 2,000 subreddits the same day under a new rule against hate based on identity or vulnerability — the largest enforcement event in its history.
u/maxwellhill, one of Reddit's oldest, highest-karma, and most prolific moderators, went silent around the July 2, 2020 arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell, fueling widely reported online speculation — unconfirmed and denied — that the two were the same person.
Reddit removed WallStreetBets founder Jaime Rogozinski as a moderator in 2020 for 'attempting to monetize a community,' a move he later challenged in a 2023 lawsuit alleging the rationale was a pretext to control a valuable brand; courts ultimately ruled against him.
A baseless 2020 QAnon theory that the retailer Wayfair was trafficking children spread rapidly after appearing on r/conspiracy, leading to the harassment of real families whose missing-relative cases were dragged into the falsehood and straining a national anti-trafficking hotline.
After Reddit's 2015 harassment bans, users of r/fatpeoplehate and r/CoonTown flooded Voat, a 'free speech' Reddit clone that became a haven for communities banned from the platform — and a real-world test of whether deplatforming works, before it collapsed for lack of funding on Christmas Day 2020.
The Watchtower Bible and Tract Society used a DMCA Section 512(h) subpoena to try to unmask an anonymous r/exjw critic; a federal court quashed it on fair-use and anonymous-speech grounds in March 2020.