How Reddit Built the World’s First ‘Digital Ghetto’

How Reddit Built the World’s First ‘Digital Ghetto’

After enduring months of abuse on Reddit, a group of Jewish moderators finally secured a meeting with company officials in May 2024. The moderators, volunteers who enforce the rules of a subreddit, had been pleading with Reddit for months to enforce its own rules against antisemitism, which soared after October 7, 2023.The derogatory slur “Zionazi” was being used over 2,000 times a month in comments on Reddit posts, according to publicly availab…