A team of researchers from UC Santa Barbara and Intel took thousands of conversations from the scummiest communities on Reddit and Gab and used them to develop and train AI to combat hate speech. Finally, r/The_Donald and other online cesspools are doing something useful.

The Internet may have already begun exploding due to April Fools' Day pranks, but one site's April 1st gesture is decidedly not a joke: the temporary closure of Reddit's "r/games" channel. An 8pm ET post on Sunday confirmed a united front by r/games' moderation team to shed light on the "condescending, dismissive, vindictive and pessimistic attitudes we see in our day-to-day activity." Instead of being able to create new topics or post comments, the community's 1.6 million subscribers will be left reading a locked moderator post that describes an average day's discourse on the site—along with the mod team's hopes for change.

A Redditor who posted information about a Jehovah’s Witness-affiliated organization has won the right to defend themselves in court under a pseudonym. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which represented the user known only as Darkspilver, successfully argued that unmasking them put them at risk of being cast out by their Jehovah’s Witness community.

2018 and part of 2019 was called "the crypto winter" by many due to huge losses. Bitcoin tumbled from its all-time-high of nearly $20K during December 2017 to $3400 in roughly a year. This massive market reversal caused many newcomers to the cryptocurrency space at a loss. These losses have caused a lot of anguish and personal issues to investors and individuals. Many have reported massive losses while expecting gains. It appears that it may have even broken up a marriage or 2.

My years-long journey to the top of Reddit's karma leaderboards has only made me feel more alone.

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Reddit has a very specific policy prohibiting people from threatening bodily harm or attempting to incite violence. It uses this policy as the basis for banning individual accounts, discussion threads, and whole subreddits. Basically if you cross the line, you’re gone. Unless you’re a member of the r/TheDonald subreddit.

Reddit’s dark corners can seem like a dangerous and seedy mess. With over 330 million users, the message board platform is vast and filled with posters obsessed with sports, hobbies, and hyper-specific public transit memes. But its far-right communities have peddled false-flag conspiracy theories, spread Islamaphobic and anti-semitic content, and encouraged violence. While the company has banned some of its worst message boards, it has often ignored or been slow to take action on other hateful communities.

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Steve Huffman, chief executive of online chat platform Reddit, is now a self-confessed “Supreme Court nerd.” After what the company acknowledges as its “wild” early days, the 35-year-old co-founder is now trying to clean up the edgy website known for provocative discussions and fringe groups, while revamping its advertising offering in a bid to woo big brands and move toward profitability.

Reddit's CEO is trying to clean up the edgy website known for provocative discussions and fringe groups, while revamping its advertising in a bid to woo big brands.

Carl Herold was known to fellow Reddit users as CarlH, a popular poster who helped teach computer skills to others. But to police in Alabama Herold is a man accused of committing unspeakable acts of torture and rape on his own 9-year-old son, including producing photographs and video so disturbing that police had a difficult time even viewing them.

Reddit really needs no introduction at this point. However, if you’ve been living under a rock over the last few years, …

The MPAA has asked Google to remove a Reddit community from its search results over piracy concerns. The movie industry group lists the "FullLengthFilms" subreddit in a recent takedown request, alongside several notorious pirate sites. Thus far Google has refused to take the page down, and Reddit hasn't taken any action either.

Reddit vows to protect user privacy—but not if you're Jennifer Lawrence.

The popular message board Reddit has agreed to a preliminary deal to sell 10pc of the company for US$50m at the same time it locks down attempts to share recent celebrity nude images.

The front page of the internet has a lot more money in the bank, with Reddit confirming $50 million in new funding. More interesting than the amount raised, however, was that investors promised 10 percent of their new equity in the company will be shared with community members, a highly unusual move.

Several weeks ago, I wrote about the birth and subsequent charity efforts of the Fappening, Reddit’s newly created subreddit (which later became multiple subreddits) devoted to housing celebrity nudes. The Fappening subreddits popped up when nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence and other celebrities were leaked on 4chan. They were controversial from the beginning,

Like many terrifying rumors, it started on Reddit. Redditor joes_nipples posted an image Thursday of a Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew tasting table, aptly called Dewritos with the caption, “It actually tasted like Doritos.”

It's one of the most popular podcasts ever, and amateur detectives are trying to get to the bottom of the true-life murder at the heart of it. But how is social media sleuthing influencing the case and the real people caught up in it?