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Reddit’s largest remaining Trump community banned for “inciting violence”
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Reddit’s largest remaining Trump community banned for “inciting violence”

08/01/2021

The image currently at the top of r/donaldtrump.
Enlarge / The image currently at the top of r/donaldtrump.

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On Friday, Reddit joined this week’s response to violent online rhetoric as spearheaded by President Donald Trump and removed its “r/donaldtrump” community, the site’s largest existing community dedicated specifically to Trump. Visiting any of that community’s pages now leads to a simple message pointing to Reddit’s rules about “inciting violence,” which starts by saying, “Do not post violent content.”

Without a citation of specific Reddit threads or a formal announcement from Reddit administrators clarifying the move, users may be left wondering about the exact reason for the removal. It’s possible, for example, that the community page was punished for reposting Trump’s speeches and statements from earlier in the week, which alternated between false claims about election fraud, calls to action by his followers in response to his claims about fraud, or sympathetic statements about the seditionists who stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday.

While searching through r/donaldtrump archives is a bit unwieldy (owing to how such archives are maintained at sites like archive.is), cursory searches point to the community hosting pre-protest conversations about the January 6 protest, usually with titles pointing to Trump’s direct request that his followers from across the nation attend. The issue may also have come from multiple claims at r/donaldtrump shortly before its shutdown about Wednesday’s seditionists being disguised as “antifa,” despite a majority of Capitol building invaders being identified with clear links to white nationalist organizations and calls for a violent January 6 protest.

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At the hour of its ban, r/donaldtrump, which was created in 2011, had approximately 52,800 “members” (meaning those logged-in users who elected to add the channel to their default “home” page interface). That number pales compared to the nearly 800,000 members who had subscribed to r/the_donald before it was shut down in August 2020—and demonstrates that the latter community’s closure seems to have worked in a “deplatforming” way in terms of reducing visibility for hateful, rule-breaking content.

Other online platforms are still scrambling to play catch-up in dealing with hosted and promoted conspiracy theories and calls to action by Trump supporters ahead of the January 6 siege on the US Capitol. The hours following the siege saw critics heap “told you so” responses about clear, weeks-old calls to violent action publicly posted to platforms like TikTok, Parler, Facebook, and Twitter.

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