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Why Reddit users are prefacing memes featuring Nintendo's Luigi with 'Nothing Violent' (www.wbur.org)

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Credits:

Episode producer: Ben Brock Johnson and Grace Tatter

Co-hosts: Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson

Editor: Meg Cramer

Show producers: Samata Joshi, Dean Russell, Emily Jankowski, Frannie Monahan

Mixer and sound designer: Paul Vaitkus

There's a conspiracy theory on Reddit right now suggesting that Reddit is using aggressive tools to hide posts praising or supporting Luigi Mangione's alleged execution-style killing of the CEO of United Healthcare, Brian Thompson. Endless Thread looks at what is going on with Luigi memes on this platform: the Nintendo character memes… and the other ones.

Show notes:

A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content (The Verge)

Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content (The Verge)

What's the deal with all of these Luigi themed posts saying "nothing violent going on here"? (r/OutOfTheLoop)

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