Reddit Becomes Latest Platform To Act Against Russia's Spread of Misinformation

by: Alice Gibbs
2022-03-01
Source: Newsweek
03/02/2022

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Popular forum site Reddit has become the latest to take action against Russia after quarantining the community subreddits r/Russia and r/RussiaPolitics.

This week, sites including Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have made moves to restrict Russian state disinformation over the war in Ukraine, announcing the pausing of advertisements and prohibiting monetizing of content.

Shortly before the action from Reddit, the community r/Russia had 266,000 members, and its counterpart r/RussiaPolitics had over 6,000.

Source: Newsweek