NEW: Reddit says it is banning about 2,000 subreddits, including r/The_Donald, where supporters of President Trump gathered, in a crackdown the tech company says is aimed at communities that promote hate.
The Trump-focused community had been almost entirely abandoned in recent months. Only one new post has appeared in the last 100 days, as users were told to flee to a pro-Trump site that cloned Reddit’s functionality and design, but promised more lax moderation.
The announcement by San Francisco-based Reddit comes four months before the presidential election and as tech companies are increasingly at the center of political debates — often ones that anger politicians and spark discussion of government regulation. Facebook has been generally more accommodating of Trump but two weeks ago removed some of his ads forTwitch said Monday that two comments made by Trump on its service violated its rules against hateful conduct: a rebroadcast of past Trump comments when he called Mexican immigrants “rapists,” and a video from a rally where Trump spoke about “tough hombres” committing break-ins.
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