Reddit: content removed 2020, by violation

Published by Statista Research Department, Aug 5, 2021
In 2020, the majority of content removed by Reddit administrators was spam or involved other forms of content manipulation, with roughly 85 million pieces of content taken down from the platform for these reasons. Among the other content that violated the platform's policy, 55 thousand pieces of content were removed because they deemed as hateful, while around 51 thousand pieces of content were removed due to harassment.

Number of pieces of content removed on Reddit in 2020, by type violation (in 1,000s)

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Release date

February 2021

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2020

Special properties

including content that was reinstated after successful appeal; (excluding spam and other types of Content Manipulation removals

Supplementary notes

This section distinguishes between Content Policy removals and Content Manipulation removals. “Content Manipulation” describes things like spam, community interference (i.e., “brigading”), vote manipulation (attempts to interfere with Reddit’s upvote/downvote tallies), and other attempts to artificially promote content. In 2020, 99.2% of admin policy removals were for Content Manipulation, while the remaining 0.8% were for violations of our Content Policy.

Violent content (26,986) includes 557 pieces of US-designated foreign terrorist organization content.

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