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ADMIN MOD. What's going on with r/The_Donald? Why they got quarantined in 1 hour ago? Answered. The sub is quarantined right now, but i don't know what happened and led them to this. r/The_Donald. Edit: Holy Moly! Didn't expect that the users over there advocating violence, death threats and riots. I'm going to have some key lime pie now.
Aug 3, 2020 · Aug 3, 2020 7:00 AM. The Hate-Fueled Rise of r/The_Donald—and Its Epic Takedown. The notorious subreddit trafficked in violent rhetoric, growing a prodigious following over five years....
- History
- Relationship to Trump
- Influence
- Prominence on Reddit
- Controversies
- Media Reception
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On June 27, 2015, shortly after Donald Trump announced his campaign for the presidency at Trump Tower, the subreddit was created as a place for "following the news related to Donald Trump during his presidential run". The subreddit grew to be known for frequent posting of memes, especially Pepe the Frog, and frequent uses of slang terms such as "ce...
The Trump campaign's digital director, Brad Parscale, stated in June 2016 that he visited the subreddit daily. Throughout the election, members in Trump's war room at Trump Tower monitored the subreddit to see new trends. During the 2016 Democratic National Convention on July 27, 2016, Trump hosted an AMA on the subreddit. Moderators of the subredd...
A quantitative analysis found that r/The_Donald was an important influencer of news content on Twitter, with the board contributing 2.97% of mainstream news links and 2.72% of alternative news links on Twitter (as a fraction of all links co-appearing on Twitter, Reddit, and 4chan). The researchers concluded that "'fringe' communities often succeed ...
Algorithm
Through the use of "sticky posts", a moderation function of Reddit that allows selected posts to be placed on top of all other posts on the su dit ahead, the moderators of the forum were "gaming" the algorithms in order to dominate the content on the r/all page, which is a representation of the most popular content on the website. Additionally, users were often apt to flood the website with waves of identical images or posts, a direct violation of site-wide policies regarding spam. In respons...
Conflict with Reddit management
The subreddit received additional coverage on November 24, 2016, when Reddit CEO Steve Huffman admitted to editing r/The_Donald users' comments that were critical of him, in response to harassment by the community. On November 30, 2016, Huffman announced that sticky threads from r/The_Donald would no longer show up on r/all. Huffman's rules were criticized by some Redditors, including both Trump and non-Trump supporters, while others felt the sanctions did not go far enough and called upon Hu...
Pizzagate conspiracy theory
A conspiracy theory involving the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, John Podesta and the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria attracted attention on r/The_Donald. Several members of the community created the r/pizzagate subreddit which was subsequently banned by Reddit administrators for breaking site rules regarding sharing personal information of others. In December 2016, the subreddit gained media attention when it linked a knee injury sustained by NBA player Andrew Bogutto the conspiracy theory.
Seth Rich murder conspiracy theories
r/The_Donald devoted a significant number of posts to the murder of Seth Rich. In July 2017, The Economist noted that there had been over 10,000 posts dedicated to the topic. The subreddit promoted the conspiracy theory that his killing was a political assassination. Reddit users attempted to tie the homicide to the Clinton body count conspiracy theory. Several members of the subreddit planned a march on Washington, D.C.
CNN wrestling video
On July 2, 2017, Donald Trump tweeted a video of himself wrestling Vince McMahon with the CNN logo superimposed over McMahon's face. Multiple sources, including The New York Times, NBC News, the BBC, and The Washington Post, reported that the clip appeared on the subreddit about four days earlier.However, on July 3, the White House denied that the video directly came from Reddit. Additionally, The Washington Post reported that the Reddit user who posted the video, HanAssholeSolo, also wrote a...
The subreddit was criticized by Vice, which stated in an article that the subreddit was "authoritarian", "racist", "misogynistic", "homophobic", "Islamophobic", and a "hypocritical 'free speech' rallying point". The publication Slate described r/The_Donald as a "hate speech forum" and The Verge has described it as a "notoriously fetid troll swamp"....
Jul 2, 2020 · Since 2015, more than 790,000 people have congregated over at the r/The_Donald subreddit, posting memes, videos and messages in support of their hero, US then-presidential candidate and...
Jan 9, 2021 · Reddit banned pro-Trump subreddit r/The_Donald in June following an expansion of its policies to ban hate speech more explicitly. The Donald’s Discord server was one of the places...
