Some of Reddit‘s biggest communities have started to ban content from Elon Musk‘s social media site X, formerly Twitter.
Several communities, known as subreddits, have placed restrictions on links to the platform after Musk made gestures during President Donald Trump‘s inaugural celebrations that were compared to Nazi salutes.
Newsweek reached out to Musk for comment through SpaceX via email.
Why It Matters
Musk has made engagement with internet culture a large part of his personal brand, with sites like X and Reddit being large contributors to that culture. With Musk now a controversial figure online, his prominence within these spaces could be affected as well as his popularity.
What To Know
Sports communities were some of the first to put the ban into place, with a Chicago Bears subreddit and a large F1 subreddit …