Thursday, September 14, 2017

Reddit ban on white nationalist, fat-shaming channels led to dramatic drop in hate speech

As one of the largest and best known web forums, Reddit has become a sanctuary for people with all sorts of unsavory views, including white nationalists and the so-called "alt-right." But the platform where a section of users have proliferated anti-Semitic memes and creepshots has taken action to clean up some of the hate speech by closing down several subreddits or, and it is working, according to a new study.

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