Reddit sides with Ukraine, bans all hyperlinks to Russia’s state-sponsored RT and Sputnik

Reddit is now categorically banning its customers, globally, from posting hyperlinks to Russian state-sponsored media retailers, together with RT and Sputnik.

It’s presumably probably the most concrete deplatforming of these channels but — as a result of whereas Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Twitter, YouTube, and many others have paused their advertisements or eliminated content material or restricted discoverability or stopped actively selling content material, and each Facebook and YouTube have blocked content material within the EU particularly, none of these is identical factor as a blanket site-wide international ban on all hyperlinks.

In a blog post (by way of Engadget), Reddit says it’s already been rejecting advertisements “that target Russia or originate from any Russia-based entity, government or private,” notes that the moderators of some subreddits have already blocked hyperlinks to Russian state media on their very own, and moreover says it’s spending to assist help and home a few of its employees in Ukraine.

Reddit seemingly admits that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will probably be an ongoing moderation problem, although, and says it’s put a course of in place so moderators can escalate issues on to the Reddit group.

We’re preserving monitor of the most recent implications and reactions from tech to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on this StoryStream. Rest of World has a good list of tech company reactions as nicely.