SubRedditCancer mod here. The admins have been complicit in this sort of thing for a long time when the political bias is the "correct" one. For example, /r/socialism was actively brigading and spamming a certain subreddit, /r/hookertalk. The admins obliged and banned the subreddit, with a "stern" "don't do it again" post from /u/Sporkicide.

When some people were doing shenanigans on /r/PCmasterrace, the entire subreddit was shut down. /u/intortus, a SRS moderator used to bully /r/SRSSucks and would invent flimsy excuses to ban longtime users that were shown to be false when he couldn't even recall order of events properly to justify his action, and one excuse he even gave he admitted it was based on "suspicion." He did all of this under the guise of being an impartial observer, and we tried to give him the benefit of the doubt, but after he lost his job at reddit he began to become more open about his political leanings and basically now posts with the occasional "subtle" dig or grumble about reddit (presumably for being forced to resign his position) or white knights ladies and feminism and various forms of virtue signaling. After intortus a lot of us have learned to never trust the admins again, and after Ellen Pao and the (now former) moderator accusing people that didn't even know her gender of "mansplaining" it's become pretty clear that reddit, in some instances, values ideology and trendy Silicon Valley leftism over profits.

Reddit still can't really turn a profit, however, and the forced attempts to monetize it and make it "edgy" are only going to drive more users away as the people at the helm of the ship start prioritizing celebrity bullshit and activism to appeal to who they want to be the average redditor, not who the average redditor actually is.