This is not the first time where Reddit’s moderation policies have been called into question. It is not yet known what these policy updates are The Independent has reached out to Reddit for more information. We will do our best to do better for you”, MrHuffman said. We did not operate to our own standards here. The employee is no longer with Reddit, and we’ll be evolving a number of relevant internal policies. We understand the anger and confusion about these issues and their bigger implications. “We care deeply for Reddit and appreciate that you do too. In this case, we over-indexed on protection, which had serious consequences in terms of enforcement actions.”
“We’ve put significant effort into improving how we handle doxxing and harassment, and this employee was the subject of both. We did not adequately vet her background before formally hiring her”, Mr Huffman said in his post.
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We built a relationship with her first as a mod and then through her contractor work on RPAN. “As of today, the employee in question is no longer employed by Reddit. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, posting on the site under his u/spez account, addressed the backlash in order to give an “update” on the issue. Many subreddits also shared photos of the Reddit employee, asking users to upvote the image, in order to raise awareness of the issue. In the aftermath, over 100 subreddits including r/Apple, r/pokemongo, r/relationship_advice, r/AmongUS, r/smashbros, and more went private or publicly expressed solidarity with r/UKPolitics.
Removing propaganda from Reddit may prove tougher than doing so on most other sites. He noted a considerable uptick in both new propaganda accounts and content pushed by the Iranian troll farm, saying they "kicked it into high gear" since August 2017. 16 and 18, just days before Facebook's pulldown.īrown and other volunteers used a combination of website identification data, called WHOIS data, and tracked similar domain-name registrars and IP addresses to determine the origins of the websites he suspected of being part of a propaganda campaign, which frequently posted fabricated news stories to Reddit.
The two most recent messages identifying Iranian propaganda to Reddit's paid administrators came on Aug. In total, there were more than two dozen times that the group of Reddit power users, led by Brown, notified Reddit employees of the Iranian disinformation operation, starting in July 2017, according to correspondence viewed by NBC News.