With online fake news, terrorist propaganda, hate speech and harassment, social media companies are struggling to preserve free speech but keep excesses at a minimum. (NBC News, December 7, 2016, by Alyssa Newcomb)
Reddit is one of the social media companies struggling to keep their identities as defenders of free speech while curtailing the online terrorists and neo-Nazis. A phenomenon called the “Reddit Revolt” has social justice advocates clashing with a right-leaning outfit calling themselves free speech activists. (Reason.com, December 6, 2016,by Andrea O’Sullivan)