“The first assessor, of whether that post is good, is the community … if it doesn’t make it out of that community, nobody else is going to see it.” “What’s really interesting about Reddit is, it’s over 52 million people a day who are engaged in the content very deeply, and each one of those communities gets to write their own rules and enforce those rules. “Ours is, I think, really unique and different, and it really works for us,” she said. Sign up to receive the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning Sign up to receive an email with the top stories from Guardian Australia every morning It is this system, Reddit’s chief operating officer Jen Wong told the Guardian, which sets Reddit apart from other social media sites. People also frequently comment and correct misinformation as part of the debate in Reddit communities. Up or down voting posts on Reddit is the last form of moderation, where users in the community rate a post or comment, changing what people see first on the page. Then subreddits have their own community rules which are enforced by the users, who act as administrators or moderators of those communities. The company has an overarching content policy for all its communities which, if violated, can see content removed, users banned, and subreddits either quarantined or banned. Reddit moderation works at three levels: site level, community level and user level. Like other social media platforms, Reddit has had to grapple with growing calls to deal with misinformation and conspiracy theories propagated on its platform. Much of the focus has been on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, while Reddit has escaped the spotlight. In the past year since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, misinformation on social media platforms has been under close scrutiny. The head of social news aggregator Reddit has argued its own community and administrators are the best moderator against misinformation, as the company plans to open an office in Australia for the first time.
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