All policy changes
2021-09-01
Reddit acts against COVID misinformation communities under its interference rule
- Date
- 2021-09-01
- Type
- enforcement
- Affected areas
- Health misinformation; community interference; quarantine
What changed
After pressure from a large moderator protest, Reddit in early September 2021 banned r/NoNewNormal and quarantined 54 other communities tied to COVID misinformation. Reddit justified the ban under its rule against community interference (brigading) rather than misinformation directly, reflecting how it applied existing content-policy tools to pandemic-era harms.