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The social media fallout from Wednesday’s invasion of and violence inside the U.S. Capitol extended to Reddit Friday, as the platform banned subreddit r/donaldtrump.
The community is not an official subreddit of outgoing President Donald Trump.
Reddit took similar steps late last June, banning roughly 2,000 subreddits, including r/The_Donald, with co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman saying at the time that the community consistently fostered and upvoted more rule-breaking content than average communities, and its moderators “refused to meet our most basic expectations.”
As for r/donaldtrump, Reddit said the subreddit was banned for repeated violations of glorifying and inciting violence, and its moderators had been issued several warnings.
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