Content warning: This article contains numerous examples of bigoted rhetoric. Users on Reddit’s “r/conspiracy” forum have repeatedly and openly posted anti-LGBTQ content for years without pushback, despite the platform’s rules prohibiting “hate based on identity or vulnerability” and anti-LGBTQ “groomer” rhetoric. Reddit has a history of taking action against other subreddits that have violated those rules. A Media Matters review of r/conspiracy since May 2020 found a widespread pattern of anti-LGBTQ hate, which includes accusing the LGBTQ community of grooming, having “mental illness,” and associating with pedophilia.
Always has been. Reddit welcomes it, the rules are just for show. I once reported one of the most vile, racist posts I’ve ever seen in a supposed “dark comedy” subreddit.
“This post has been reported previously and was found to not violate Reddit’s rules.”
Not always, but it definitely shifted into a right wing echo chamber 4 or so years ago