Is reddit owned by a malicious entity?
Always has been.
As with many things under capitalism, the ongoing mandate is that profits must go up, and must go up at a higher rate no matter what, or investors panic and the price drops steeply which can lead to a collapse. Reddit is just another ravenous profit-seeking vehicle of the same kind and is going into the same "line must go up" death spiral.
The people that whine about safe spaces tend to have safe spaces of their own, and glaringly so, like "free speech" forums that ban people for opposing nazi shit.
The average "propaganda has no effect on me" believer can't identify the propaganda in what they consume, so they believe it's not there. 
Wine cave warrior NAFO ghouls are already doing Adults In The Room armchair calculations about how these death treats will increase chances of a profitable victory for their corporate masters by .03216% and how it's a heroic sacrifice that disposable Ukrainians must make to defend the land for future profitability.
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A lot of chud energy has understandable sources but is funneled anywhere and everywhere but against the ruling class.
False equivalency that doesn't make the atrocities any more acceptable.
"Recommendations" are useless when line must always go up. 
The more someone is paid, the less actual vital work they tend to do.
activation phrase or something?
I'm so very sick of the "sorry, but"
delivery system.