How you can help fight disinformation on Reddit

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There is a lot of disinformation relating to the Coronavirus pandemic on Reddit, ranging from misconceptions about PPE & the vaccine to unsafe medical advice which could easily cause harm. More than 1500 communities on reddit have called for the admins to take action. There have been numerous articles covering both the open letter and reddit's response. This thread will serve as a place to discuss and link these articles, along with any other examples of covid misinformation on the site.

This thread will also be a place to gather the type of content that we protest against.

Here is an example of dangerous content, that should be reported.

While we do not agree with the reply from admins which framed counterfactual, dangerous propaganda as "just an alternative viewpoint" that reply also provided us with handles on how to move forward within existing content policy.

In his reply, Mr. Huffman told us what redditors may not do to protest, but he also told us what we can do. He explicitly wrote that they will action against communities that violate their rules, including fraud and encouraging harm. Unfortunately, and unacknowledged by /u/spez' response, the disinformation that we are protesting against does exactly that. It encourages harm.

This is where we need your help. If you find comments and threads that violate this rule then report them as disinformation via the link you can find at the bottom of this text. This is not a partisan issue. This pandemic affects us all, and we should all work together to keep people safe and informed during these difficult times.

We will collate everything that all of us together find into a spreadsheet that we will present to admins via a different reporting channel. By working within the rules that reddit laid out for content on this platform we stand the most chance to actually achieve our goal. Convincing people to take actions that are harmful to their health, that may even result in their deaths, has no place on this website.

We look forward to working together with everyone to make reddit a better place.

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August 31st: * Screenrant: Pokémon GO Subreddit Locks Everyone Out To Protest Misinformation * Pink News: Pokémon GO Reddit switches to private in bid to curb COVID misinformation and conspiracy theories * Daily Dot: Tech newsletter: Reddit's COVID misinfo

August 30th: * Forbes: Dozens Of Subreddits Go Private To Protest Reddit’s Covid Disinformation Policy * Dexerto: Pokemon Go Reddit goes private in protest of 'fake news' subreddits * t3n: Aus Protest gegen Reddit-Führung: Mehrere Subreddits nicht mehr erreichbar * Marsielle News: Reddit de Pokémon Go devient privé pour protester contre les mensonges de Covid * Kotaku: Pokémon Go's Reddit Goes Dark In Protest Against Site Inaction * Daily Dot: After Reddit refuses demands for crackdown, dozens of subreddits go dark to protest COVID disinformation * Massively OP: Pokemon Go subreddit goes dark to protest Reddit’s stance on COVID disinfo

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