A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content
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Summary
Reddit is flagging the word “Luigi”, it is unrelated to a recent post about the video game Luigi’s Mansion 3, but relates to Luigi Mangione who is accused of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December.
A spokesperson for the site said there was no sitewide filter for the word, however, it was flagging comments that mentioned “Luigi” in some cases.
Reddit’s automatic moderation system had filtered the word as the r/popculture subreddit had only one moderator at the time and the automatic moderation system can filter certain keywords that may indicate violent content.
Luigi Mangione is a separate issue which has seen the r/FreeLuigi subreddit discuss the case, this subreddit has strict rules in place to avoid violating Reddit’s moderation rules such as referring to Mangione by his initials and a blanket ban on content that calls for or endorses violence, however, moderators are still fearful that Reddit will close the subreddit.