Reddit bans ‘The_Donald’ forum amid broad social media crackdown

Reddit said it was banning about 2,000 subreddits, the majority of which were inactive. The list included r/The_Donald and the left-wing forum r/ChapoTrapHouse. — Reuters

Social media site Reddit on June 29 shut down r/The_Donald, a forum which long served as a popular online home base for fans of US president Donald Trump, saying it violated the site’s hate speech rules.

Other sites also conducted high-profile sweeps: Amazon.com Inc’s livestreaming platform Twitch temporarily banned Trump’s official channel, saying it violated Twitch’s policy on hateful speech, while Google’s YouTube suspended six leading white nationalist accounts.