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Reddit banned controversial forum The_Donald on Monday as it makes sweeping changes to its hate speech policies. The subreddit sprung up as a forum for supporters of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election campaign, but soon became known for playing host to racist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic and other problematic content.

“All communities on Reddit must abide by our content policy in good faith,” said CEO Steve Huffman in a Reddit post announcing the changes. “We banned r/The_Donald because it has not done so, despite every…