As someone that modded a few fairly large subs I can tell you that the admins were very frequently in contact with power mods because they treat the faggots like foot soldiers. They would insert them into mod teams to watch "problematic" subs.
Maxwell repeatedly violated TOS from what I remember and was never close to banned.
Considering how Epstein treated every association as a mark to be conned and blackmailed it's highly likely that Reddit's shift from somewhat neutral into far left insanity was their influence. I wonder how many people are trafficked through reddit as well.
PS don't forget that they hired a self professed pedophile
You're over emphasizing their influence, imo. There's so many things that influenced Reddit's shift. I noticed nearly all message board I was a part of shifted left over time because presumably, the right leaning people all got lives and didn't have time or the care to shitpost online. Then the government started implementing laws to encourage its DEI bs which the leftist leaned into hard.