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Most of the worst of fake news, the most blatant of examples of staging and bullshit has been with that fucker.

Man I hate that guy
 

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Jan 11, 2016
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Reddit Restricts Pro-Trump Forum Because of Threats
The subreddit The_Donald was “quarantined” after users posted threats of violence against police officers and politicians in Oregon, administrators said.

Reddit limited access to a forum popular with supporters of President Trump on Wednesday, saying that its users had violated rules prohibiting content that incites violence.

Visitors to the The_Donald subreddit were greeted Wednesday with a warning that the section had been “quarantined,” meaning its content would be harder to find, and asking if they still wanted to enter.

Site administrators said that users of the online community, which has about 750,000 members, had made threats against police officers and public officials.

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“The reason for the quarantine is that over the last few months we have observed repeated rule-breaking behavior in your community and an overreliance on Reddit admins to manage users and remove posts that violate our content policy, including content that encourages or incites violence,” Reddit wrote in a message to the site’s moderators, who shared the note publicly on Wednesday.

“Most recently,” the message continued, “we have observed this behavior in the form of encouragement of violence toward police officers and public officials in Oregon.”

The posts came amid a partisan feud in Oregon over a climate change bill, in which Gov. Kate Brown, a Democrat, ordered the state police to corral Republican lawmakers who had fled the Capitol. There was a one-day closing of the Capitol after threats of militia violence.

“We are clear in our sitewide policies that posting content that encourages or threatens violence is not allowed on Reddit,” a spokesperson for the website said in an email to The New York Times Wednesday. “As we have shared, we are sensitive to what could be considered political speech, however, recent behaviors including threats against the police and public figures is content that is prohibited by our violence policy. As a result, we have actioned individual users and quarantined the subreddit.”

The_Donald bills itself as “a never-ending rally dedicated to the 45th President of the United States.” Among its prominently posted rules: “Trump Supporters Only. No Cucks or Leftists.” The former is a derogatory term for anti-Trump Republicans and conservatives.


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The subreddit has been fertile ground for pro-Trump images and videos that spread to other social media platforms, with support from within the president’s circle. In fact, days after being named digital director of the Trump campaign in 2016, Brad Parscale, now the campaign manager of the president’s re-election campaign, tweeted that he visited The_Donald daily.

“It was clear that they had an audience with not only a great deal of Trump’s supporters but with Trump himself,” said Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, a senior writer at Inc. and author of “We Are the Nerds,” a book about Reddit.

In July 2016, Mr. Trump answered questions from users of the subreddit. Throughout the campaign and the early days of his presidency, Mr. Trump mined the community for memes he would later amplify on social media.

With hundreds of thousands of subscribers, The_Donald is home to a broad conversation ranging from discussion about the news to media criticism to jokes. But the community has also been known to spread extremist messages and conspiracy theories, including the debunked “Pizzagate” story, which centered on a belief that a Washington-area restaurant was secretly home to a child-abuse ring. The subreddit has also been criticized for allowing an undercurrent of racist, Islamophobic and anti-Semitic tropes and language.

The response by Reddit on Wednesday stopped short of an outright ban of the group, a step taken by administrators twice in 2017, when they cracked down on Nazi, white supremacist and far right subreddits and later expunged a forum about the subculture of “incels,” or involuntary celibate men, because of threats of violence against women.
 

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Acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner John Sanders resigns amid furor over treatment of migrant children
Sanders’ decision to step down leaves the White House with yet another vacancy in a key role at a fraught time for U.S. immigration policy. The administration faces bipartisan pressure to improve living conditions for detained children reportedly left with poor nutrition and supervision. President Donald Trump has also threatened mass deportations if he cannot come to an agreement with congressional Democrats on tweaks to immigration laws.

Speaking to reporters Tuesday afternoon, Trump said he did not talk to Sanders about resigning and denied ever speaking to him. But he said he knew “there was going to be a change” at CBP.