Reddit Transparency Report: Jan-Jun 2024

[u/outersunset]

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. 

[u/smushkan]

Do the 'author deletion' stats include instances where posts and comments have been 'removed' by anonymizing services that replace comments with nonsense rather than removing them outright?