Content warning: This article contains numerous examples of bigoted and violent rhetoric. Users on Reddit’s “r/conspiracy” forum have repeatedly posted antisemitic content, despite Reddit’s rules prohibiting “hate based on identity or vulnerability” and “violent content,” and the platform’s history of taking action against other subreddits that have violated those rules. A review by Media Matters of r/conspiracy since mid-2020 found a widespread pattern of antisemitism on the subreddit, including content that targets specific Jewish people based on antisemitic tropes, denies the Holocaust, uses an antisemitic symbol to target Jewish people, invokes an antisemitic conspiracy theory about supposed fake Jewish people, and suggests violence against Jewish people.
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