r/RedditSafety • u/outersunset • Oct 16 '24

Reddit Transparency Report: Jan-Jun 2024

Hello, redditors!

Today we published our Transparency Report for the first half of 2024, which shares data and insights about our content moderation and legal requests from January through June 2024.

Reddit’s biannual Transparency Reports provide insights and metrics about content moderation on Reddit, including content that was removed as a result of automated tooling and accounts that were suspended. It also includes legal requests we received from governments, law enforcement agencies, and third parties around the world to remove content or disclose user data.

Some key highlights include:

  • ~5.3B pieces of content were shared on Reddit (incl. posts, comments, PMs & chats) 
  • Mods and admins removed just over 3% of the total content created (1.6% by mods and 1.5% by admins)
  • Over 71% of the content removed by mods was done through automated tooling, such as Automod.
  • As usual, spam accounted for the majority of admin removals (66.5%), with the remainder being for various Content Policy violations (31.7%) and other reasons, such as non-spam content manipulation (1.8%)
  • There were notable increases in legal requests from government and law enforcement agencies to remove content (+32%) and in non-emergency legal requests for account information (+23%; this is the highest volume of information requests that Reddit has ever received in a single reporting period) compared to the second half of 2023
    • We carefully scrutinize every request to ensure it is legally valid and narrowly tailored, and include the data on how we’ve responded in the report
    • Importantly, we caught and rejected a number of fraudulent legal requests purporting to come from legitimate government and law enforcement agencies; we subsequently reported these bogus requests to the appropriate authorities.

You can read more insights in the full document: Transparency Report: January to June 2024. You can also see all of our past reports and more information on our policies and procedures in our Transparency Center.

Please let us know in the comments section if you have any questions or are interested in learning more about other data or insights. 

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u/the9trances Oct 16 '24

Content manipulation is a term we use to combine things like spam, community interference, etc.

Does community interference specifically refer to communities that brigade other subreddits?

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u/Skullbone211 Oct 17 '24

For some reason I can't reply to your other comment, but yes, admin approved brigading subs like /r/bestof, /r/subredditdrama, /r/AgainstHateSubreddits, etc. are clearly exempt from the rules, as they frequently brigade with 0 consequences

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u/GonWithTheNen Oct 17 '24

admin approved brigading subs…

Can't speak for any of those subs except for /r/SubredditDrama, but the SRD mods have been permanently banning anyone that brigaded other subs for years before reddit even had an official report form.

The good news is that the SRD mods still gladly drop the banhammer on brigaders - but they can't take action unless those of us who spot the offenders report them.

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u/the9trances Oct 17 '24

Those subreddits provide direct, uncensored links to comments and posts. It is absolutely unfeasible that those massive communities aren't clicking through and then up or downvoting as they see fit, based entirely on the whim of the community that links.

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u/GonWithTheNen Oct 18 '24

clicking through and then up or downvoting as they see fit

There's good news for that, too: Those up/downvotes from non-subscribers have no effect due to reddit's Crowd Control features— and most large subs have this feature turned on.

So, even if someone suddenly joins a sub (that uses Crowd Control) and they start voting on posts/comments, they'll see their vote taking effect but all of their votes will be moot and will not affect the ratings of the posts or comments in any way. 👍