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After years of warnings and a 2019 quarantine, Reddit banned the pro-Trump subreddit r/The_Donald in June 2020. Its community had already built and migrated to the independent site TheDonald.win (later patriots.win), which reputable reporting and the official January 6th Committee report later tied to violent rhetoric and planning around the 2021 Capitol attack.
Reddit's largest pro-Trump community was quarantined in 2019 over threats of violence and banned in 2020 as part of a sweeping hate-speech policy update.
r/antiMLM grew into one of the internet's largest hubs for exposing multi-level-marketing schemes such as LuLaRoe, fueling mainstream coverage and clashing with MLM recruiters who tried to defend the model.
Canada's largest subreddit was accused, with leaked chat logs, of being run by moderators with ties to white-nationalist content — including one who placed a $250 'bounty' on a Vice journalist — while the platform's seniority rules made the implicated moderators effectively impossible to remove.
In February 2020 the horror-fiction community r/nosleep went private in protest after years of having its authors' original stories narrated, monetized, and even resold without credit or permission.
Vermont's Samuel Bent, a multi-marketplace darknet drug vendor and participant in Reddit's r/DarkNetMarkets community who later helped run the Reddit-style Dread forum, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in 2019.
A 2019 clip of streamer DarksydePhil arguing that 'general' racial jokes are acceptable reached a wide audience after being reposted to r/LivestreamFail, the subreddit that has served as a central hub for documenting streamer controversies.
A whistleblower's October 2018 Reddit post exposed that skincare brand Sunday Riley had its employees write fake Sephora reviews under invented identities — a tip that helped trigger an FTC investigation and settlement over fake-grassroots review fraud.
In January 2019 Reddit locked a large group of accounts after detecting unusual activity it attributed to credential stuffing, forcing affected users to reset passwords. Some users disputed the explanation, suspecting a direct compromise.
Reddit quarantined the 400,000-subscriber r/CringeAnarchy in September 2018 and banned it on April 25, 2019 after it hosted anti-Muslim content justifying the Christchurch mosque massacre.
Reddit banned r/Honkler on July 2, 2019, days after r/Frenworld, for using clown-Pepe 'Clown World' memes as a vehicle for coded neo-Nazi and antisemitic content.
Reddit quarantined the subreddit for IRL streamer Ice Poseidon in September 2018 for bigotry and abuse, then banned r/Ice_Poseidon and r/Ice_Poseidon2 in October 2019; the community was notorious for swatting, doxxing, and stream-sniping.