YouTube and Reddit are taking disinformation throughout their platforms seriously. YouTube claims to have taken down over 1 million videos citing dangerous COVID misinformation as the cause. Reddit, on the other hand, has deleted a popular subreddit that also centered around COVID.
After Twitter began tagging questionable COVID or election-based information, a new standard is hopefully slowly being pushed onto social media platforms, forcing them to police harmful lies about important issues.
These businesses obviously never want to delete content if they can help it, as it can only serve to alienate users and bring forth claims of censorship. However, due to massive pushes from frustrated users, these platforms are finally making moves to limit the dangerous disinformation that is being spread.
What Happened with Reddit?
One of the main tenets of Reddit is the idea that users are free to create their own communities, known as subreddits, within the website. For example, fans of the Legend of Zelda video game series could create their own subreddit where they could discuss the games, share fan art, etc.
One such subreddit was known as “No New Normal,” which was made to vent frustrations over COVID restrictions, share news on the virus, and generally discuss the past year or so. However, as time went on, No New Normal became a hub for anti-vaccination sentiment.
As Reddit users became aware of this, various major subreddits began a blackout, protesting No New Normal's...
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