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In August 2018 Reddit became inaccessible in mainland China, joining Google, Facebook, and Twitter behind the Great Firewall, with the platform remaining blocked into the 2020s.
In August 2018 Reddit removed roughly 143 accounts linked to an Iran-aligned inauthentic news network exposed as 'Liberty Front Press,' which had seeded Iran-friendly content into political subreddits.
On September 27-28, 2018, Reddit formalized and expanded its 'quarantine' mechanism — gating offensive subreddits behind an opt-in warning page, stripping ad revenue, and hiding them from search — then applied it to more than 20 communities including r/CringeAnarchy, r/WatchPeopleDie, r/TheRedPill, and r/Braincels, triggering accusations of censorship and inconsistent enforcement.
On March 21, 2018, Reddit revised its content policy to prohibit transactions involving firearms, ammunition, and explosives, banning subreddits including r/GunsForSale, r/GunDeals, and r/AKMarketplace that connected buyers and sellers.
Russia's Internet Research Agency staged a Reddit 'Ask Me Anything' through fake Black-activist front sites, then answered questions largely posed by its own accounts — even copying queries a Daily Beast reporter had sent in advance to fill out the thread.
A Southern Poverty Law Center analysis found that r/The_Donald functioned as a bridge carrying white-nationalist slogans and coded epithets from fringe forums into one of Reddit's most-trafficked political communities.
After Reddit banned r/SanctionedSuicide in March 2018, its founders launched a standalone forum that journalists and regulators later linked to dozens of deaths and the spread of a specific poisoning method.
After the Parkland school shooting, conspiracy communities including r/conspiracy, r/The_Donald, and r/CBTS_Stream amplified false 'crisis actor' claims against teenage survivor David Hogg, who received death threats and was later swatted at his family's home.
Reddit's first full visual overhaul in years rolled out in April 2018 to widespread complaints about wasted space, slower load times and a more app-like card layout, prompting a large cohort of users to retreat permanently to old.reddit.com.
After the 2018 Jacksonville Landing shooting, far-right outlets falsely claimed the shooter ran a Reddit account named 'Ravenchamps' — which actually belonged to an uninvolved Minnesota man — subjecting an innocent bystander to a harassment campaign.
The creator and top moderator of r/KotakuInAction abruptly set the 100,000-member community private and stripped its other moderators, only for Reddit administrators to reverse the takeover within roughly an hour and later remove him entirely.
In 2018 r/BlackPeopleTwitter introduced 'Country Club' threads that required users to verify their race by photo before commenting, a governance experiment that drew national debate over identity, moderation, and inclusion.