Reddit: content removed by violation 2021

In 2021, the majority of content removed by Reddit administrators was spam or involved other forms of content manipulation, with roughly 98 million pieces of content taken down from the platform for these reasons. Among the other content that violated the platform's policy, 39 thousand pieces of content were removed because they were deemed as hateful, while around 92 thousand pieces of content were removed due to harassment.

Number of pieces of content removed on Reddit in 2021, by type violation

Characteristic	Content removed
Content manipulation	97,721,970
Involuntary pornography	187,258
Minor sexualization	117,093
Harassment	92,228
Hateful content	39,056
Violent content	17,487
Prohibited goods	14,918
Personally identifiable information (PII)	3,300
Impersonation	60
Other	8,142,139

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February 2022

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Worldwide

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2021

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According tot he source, content manipulation identifies spam, or "prohibited efforts to artificially promote content."
Other reasons are identified by the source as report abuse and abuse committed during live streaming session and live chats.

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