Hi everyone,

The conflict in Ukraine has been shocking and devastating. This is a fast-evolving situation, and we’ll continue to adjust our response to fit the moment. We do want to share some of the things we’re doing right now to support you and our communities.

First, we want to recognize and thank everyone focused on keeping communities safe and providing a space for people to come together. Redditors across the world are stepping in to support and care for their own communities as well as for other subreddits impacted by this crisis.

Your requests and reports related to this conflict are being escalated for rapid review. Please keep them coming. We have seen time and time again that coordinated disinformation attempts on Reddit struggle to take hold because, in addition to our detection systems, redditors are quick to remove, downvote, and challenge misleading content. Thank you.

On our end, we’re in constant contact with moderators and communities, especially those most affected by this conflict, to provide support, resources, and tooling to keep our communities safe. We have also recalibrated our systems to ensure we don’t incorrectly remove newsworthy citizen journalism that might otherwise be mistaken for rule-breaking content.

To make the fast decisions needed right now, an internal rapid response team with representatives from across the company has been set up and includes both Russian and Ukrainian speakers. These decisions include, but aren't limited to, taking actions like quarantining problematic communities and removing moderators acting in bad faith. While many communities have already prohibited links to Russian state media outlets like RT and their foreign language affiliates, we have now disallowed them sitewide. We will continue to not accept any ads targeting Russia, or ads from any entity based in Russia.

We’ll adjust our response as the situation continues to change, of course. Reddit’s heart is its community, with all the passion and compassion it holds. We will continue to do everything we can to ensure that Reddit remains a space for everyone to connect, support each other, access reliable information, and express their authentic opinions and feelings during this difficult time and always. Thank you for all you are doing to ensure this as well.

Note: We also published a similar article with the information above, plus details on how we’re supporting our employees in the conflict zone, on our company blog.