Reddit has temporarily banned one of its communities - and removed another - after X owner Elon Musk claimed comments made by the site's users about his employees were breaking the law.

Reddit has seen an increase in rule-breaking posts across “several communities,” and it has issued a temporary ban on one that featured users calling for violence against people who work for the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Reddit has totally axed one of its communities and temporarily banned another after a run-in with Elon Musk. The X chief moaned on his platform that some Reddit users on the subreddit r/WhitePeopleTwitter had broken the law after they allegedly revealed the identities of his so-called DOGE goon squad,

Reddit temporarily banned the r/WhitePeopleTwitter subreddit and removed r/IsElonDeadYet after Elon Musk claimed that comments made by users violated the law.