It’s only been a year since Digg founder Kevin Rose, Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian, and a few others announced the link-sharing site would relaunch, promising a “social discovery built by communities, not by algorithms.” Now, two months after opening its Reddit-like platform to the public, Digg is announcing a “hard reset” that’s shutting down operations […]
In a letter to the leaders of X, Meta, Alphabet, Snap, Reddit and TikTok, several U.S. senators are demanding the companies provide proof that they have “robust protections and policies” in place, and how they plan to curb the rise of sexualized deepfakes on their platforms.
When fake content goes viral, the damage has already been done, even if the post is debunked.
Reddit, one of the world’s largest social platforms, is arguing that it doesn’t meet the definition of “social media platforms” as it seeks to overturn Australia’s law banning children under 16 years of age from social media.
Reddit is starting to test verified profiles, the company announced today. Users who are verified as part of this “limited alpha test” will have a gray checkmark next to their username “across profiles, communities, feeds, post detail pages, and search results.” For this “initial test,” Reddit says it’s “selected a group of public figures and […]
Verified users will actually be notable figures, not just people who paid for the checkmark.
Reddit is “moving away” from r/popular, the default feed for new users, and plans to replace it with “better, more relevant and personalized feeds,” according to CEO Steve Huffman (aka Spez). Huffman also notes that r/popular “sucks.” “For a long while, we were known as the ‘front page of the internet,’ but we’ve outgrown a […]
