Exhibit 1053

Update to Our Content Policy (r/announcements)

Exhibit 1053 · Institutional statement

Update to Our Content Policy (r/announcements)

Alongside the change to the content policy, we are initially banning about 2000 subreddits, the vast majority of which are inactive. Of these communities, about 200 have more than 10 daily users. Both r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse were included.

Reddit announces a Rule 1 against promoting hate based on identity or vulnerability, and states it is initially banning about 2000 subreddits, mostly inactive, including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse. It gives its reasons for each in terms of rule-breaking content and moderators' refusal to meet expectations, and says it does not generally link to banned communities.

Source: Reddit, Inc. (post by the company's chief executive account)
Date: 29 June 2020
Quoted from: Body, paragraph beginning "Alongside the change"
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/hi3oht/update_to_our_content_policy/
Accessed: 2026-11-10
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit
Note: Date taken from the capture of 2 July 2020, in which the post is "2 days ago"; confirm 29 June 2020 on the post page.

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Finding INF-3.12: Primary record Reddit's content policy captured on 11 September 2015 lists quarantining and banning of communities among its enforcement options and states that Reddit does not prescribe moderators' use of its tools, and on 29 June 2020 Reddit announced that it was banning about 2,000 subreddits, including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse. A peer-reviewed study found that quarantining r/TheRedPill and r/The_Donald cut new-user influx by 79.5% and 58% while existing users' misogyny and racism did not change.