Reddit just banned '/r/The_Donald,' the largest pro-Trump subreddit, as it cracks down on hate speech and targeting

The subreddit, "The_Donald," was one of roughly 2,000 other communities that were banned across Reddit Monday, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman told reporters.
Reddit has long held a reputation as a corner of the internet with relatively little top-down moderation, but it has been increasingly cracking down on hate speech and harassment in recent years.
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Reddit's biggest community for supporters of President Donald Trump is no more.

The message board site banned more than 2,000 subreddits that regularly broke its rules on harassment, hate speech, and targeting on Monday, CEO Steve Huffman reportedly said in a call with reporters . One of those subreddits was "The_Donald," a pro-Trump forum with more than 790,000 users.

Huffman said that most of the forums known as subreddits that Reddit banned Monday were inactive, according to The New York Times . They also included some left-wing forums like "ChapoTrapHouse," a subreddit dedicated to the leftist podcast of the same name.

Reddit is the latest social media site to take a stand in recent weeks against speech by President Donald Trump and his supporters that violate their policies. Twitter applied warning labels to several of Trump's tweets for the first time ever this month, while Facebook blocked a Trump ad that included a Nazi symbol.

Reddit was previously seen as a less-moderated forum than other social media sites, but rolled out anti-harassment policies in 2015 and has started taking coordinated action to remove subreddits that encourage illegal activity in recent years.

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