All policy changes
2020-06-29
Reddit overhauls its content policy into eight rules with an explicit hate rule
- Date
- 2020-06-29
- Type
- content policy
- Affected areas
- Hate speech; content-policy structure; mass community bans
What changed
On June 29, 2020, Reddit rewrote its content policy into eight rules, with a new Rule 1 prohibiting content that promotes hate based on identity or vulnerability. Alongside the rewrite Reddit banned roughly 2,000 communities, including its largest pro-Trump community r/The_Donald, for repeated violations.