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Reddit is the 7th most visited site in the USA and somehow never gets brought up in conversations of hate speech, toxicity, and disinformation in social media.

by gundmc 6y ago

Hamuko 6y ago
I'm not sure if that's correct. I think r/The_Donald managed to keep Reddit in the headlines by itself when it still existed.
koreanguy 6y ago
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nostromo 6y ago
Reddit’s bias is aligned with the mainstream media’s, so they get a pass. The same is largely true for Twitter.
SpicyLemonZest 6y ago
It gets brought up in a different context. Until recently, Reddit had no rules against hate speech, with the CEO explaining openly and at length why free speech principles speak against such rules and why the company won't institute them. So you could (and people did) write news articles about terrible things people say on Reddit, but you couldn't claim Reddit was being hypocritical or point to a policy they're not properly enforcing. Now that Reddit does have a hate speech policy, I expect we'll start to see them in the same conversations.
tedivm 6y ago
This is just factually incorrect. A simple google search for "reddit hate speech" limited to the last year brings up major articles on both maintstream news sites and smaller niche sites. Dozens and dozens of articles. Reddit has also been called out fairly regularly for their stances on pornography (allowing things like "r/jailbait" for years). They regularly do mass bans because of the press.
throwaway0a5e 6y ago
Because everyone has written it off as a lost cause. Heck, "unsubscribe from all the default subs they're a cesspool" has been the going advice for at least a decade now. If that doesn't say lost cause I don't know what does.
- tsbinz 6y ago
  default subs haven't been a thing since 2017 though (https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/65x4a7/testing_a_new_sign_up_experience/ https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/65x4a7/testing_a...)
  - secondcoming 6y ago
    At least for me, if I log out of reddit the homepage still promotes /r/politics and a few of the other 'news' subreddits. These are all horrible places. The worst part is that it reverts back to the new UI.

Reddit is the 7th most visited site in the USA and somehow never gets brought up in conversations of hate speech, toxicity, and disinformation in social media.

by gundmc 6y ago

Reddit is the 7th most visited site in the USA and somehow never gets brought up in conversations of hate speech, toxicity, and disinformation in social media.

Hamuko 6y ago

I'm not sure if that's correct. I think r/The_Donald managed to keep Reddit in the headlines by itself when it still existed.

koreanguy 6y ago

7 pornhub.com 1.30B 15.98% 207.69M 84.02% 1.09B 8.7 15:26 22.27%

nostromo 6y ago

Reddit’s bias is aligned with the mainstream media’s, so they get a pass. The same is largely true for Twitter.

SpicyLemonZest 6y ago

It gets brought up in a different context. Until recently, Reddit had no rules against hate speech, with the CEO explaining openly and at length why free speech principles speak against such rules and why the company won't institute them. So you could (and people did) write news articles about terrible things people say on Reddit, but you couldn't claim Reddit was being hypocritical or point to a policy they're not properly enforcing. Now that Reddit does have a hate speech policy, I expect we'll start to see them in the same conversations.

tedivm 6y ago

This is just factually incorrect. A simple google search for "reddit hate speech" limited to the last year brings up major articles on both maintstream news sites and smaller niche sites. Dozens and dozens of articles. Reddit has also been called out fairly regularly for their stances on pornography (allowing things like "r/jailbait" for years). They regularly do mass bans because of the press.

throwaway0a5e 6y ago

Because everyone has written it off as a lost cause. Heck, "unsubscribe from all the default subs they're a cesspool" has been the going advice for at least a decade now. If that doesn't say lost cause I don't know what does.

tsbinz 6y ago
default subs haven't been a thing since 2017 though (https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/65x4a7/testing_a_new_sign_up_experience/ https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/65x4a7/testing_a...)
- secondcoming 6y ago
  At least for me, if I log out of reddit the homepage still promotes /r/politics and a few of the other 'news' subreddits. These are all horrible places. The worst part is that it reverts back to the new UI.