Interestingly, my reports on racist posts are being accepted much more often than they were before, so this is in fact not happening.

The site was also consumed in horrific discourse for the last week (topic being "is making chili for your neighbor racist, ableist and oppressing autistic people?") so all in all it seems to behaving as usual.

Exactly what kind of views do you think moderates were worried about not being tolerated? Going by the definition of the term it seems unlikely that anyone, much less millions, was previously deterred by policy.

Their previous CEO said they saw on the order of 500k bot signup attempts daily, and the reports last week specifically mentioned layoffs affecting those teams and things like reporting. Put that together and I’d be careful about comparing numbers before and after this month since they’re almost certainly not measuring the same thing.