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As 'pig-butchering' romance-investment scams drained billions from victims worldwide, Reddit's r/Scams and related communities became a major venue where victims sought help — even as scammers also surfaced on the platform.
In July 2023, weeks after the API blackout, Reddit abruptly killed its long-standing Coins and 50-plus Awards system with no replacement ready, drawing user anger over lost purchases and yet another unilateral product change.
Reddit's 2023 API price hikes threatened to wipe out the third-party apps that blind and visually impaired users relied on for accessible access, forcing the company into a hastily announced and criticized exception for 'accessibility-focused' apps.
Climate-misinformation researchers who traced ExxonMobil-linked disinformation across social media included Reddit's climate communities (r/climate, r/climatechange) in their analysis, situating the platform within a documented, industry-funded effort to muddy public understanding of climate science.
Reddit's decision to charge punitive prices for API access killed popular third-party apps like Apollo and triggered the largest protest in the site's history — followed by the removal of protesting moderators.
After a Twitch broadcaster was caught having paid for non-consensual deepfake pornography of fellow female streamers, the clip and the underlying site circulated through Reddit's r/LivestreamFail, drawing fresh attention to how the platform amplifies such material.
A 2022 BBC Panorama investigation revealed a Reddit subreddit with more than 20,000 members dedicated to trading leaked and non-consensual explicit images of South Asian women, some of whom were blackmailed and harassed.
Andrew Bradshaw, the newly elected mayor of Cambridge, Maryland, posted intimate images of an ex-partner to Reddit with degrading captions; he was charged with 50 counts under Maryland's revenge-porn law in November 2021 and pleaded guilty to five counts in April 2022.
Around the Depp-Heard defamation trial, an analytics firm documented coordinated, partly inauthentic harassment of Amber Heard and her supporters; pro-Depp and anti-Heard communities, including dedicated subreddits, were part of a broader cross-platform fandom ecosystem.
Six plaintiffs sued Reddit over child sexual abuse material posted in subreddits, arguing the FOSTA exception stripped Section 230 immunity; in 2022 the Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal, reading the carve-out narrowly.
On 23 March 2022 Reddit banned the India-focused r/Chodi, a community of over 90,000 members, for promoting hate against Muslims, following a TIME investigation into hate speech on the platform.
In March 2022 Reddit permanently banned r/ChongLangTV, a Chinese-diaspora community of more than 53,000 members, for doxxing — a removal that critics framed as an instance of Chinese 'long-arm censorship' reaching a Western platform, raising questions about doxxing, free expression and cross-border pressure.