"We believe it is best to enable communities to engage in debate and dissent, and for us to link to the CDC wherever appropriate," Hoffman said in a Reddit post. Steve "Spez" Hoffman, the site's co-founder and CEO, responded Thursday after saying Reddit is "a place for open and authentic discussion and debate," and there would be no action taken against the subreddits spreading COVID misinformation. Reddit as a global platform needs to take responsibility here." "There can be no room for leniency when people are dying as a result of misinformation on this platform. "There is a good chance that the disinformation that Reddit is currently inundated with will necessitate people a stay at the toxicology department in the hospital or even cost them their lives," the post read. It called for Reddit to take action against the COVID misinformation on the platform. 25, a post from r/VaxxHappened was shared with more than a thousand other subreddits.
While Reddit says the decision to ban NoNewNormal was prompted by brigades, the move comes after a grassroots effort to put the spotlight on COVID-19 misinformation on the site.
On Reddit, experts say the platform's voting system feeds into the issue, encouraging people to one-up each other with more attention grabbing and extreme posts. The spread of misinformation has been a problem across social media sites amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. 11, but according to the admin, users on the subreddit continued their rule-breaking behavior. The Reddit admin also said 54 other subreddits will be quarantined, which means they won't be listed in search results on the site and won't show up in certain Reddit feeds, such as Popular.
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