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Reddit Users Fight Hate Speech With Humor By 'Taking Over' Online Threads

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A group of users on the social media platform Reddit are taking over hate-filled discussion threads and turning them into benign or funny ones instead. Ben Brock Johnson (@TheBrockJohnson), host of the WBUR and Reddit podcast "Endless Thread," has the story.

This segment aired on November 1, 2018.

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