An investigation by Engadget and Point has unearthed troubling details that show several Russia-linked propaganda websites and trolls are continuing to influence pro-Trump communities on Reddit. Last September, numerous posts on Reddit's "The_Donald" forum were discovered to have originated from the websites brutalist.press and usareally.com. Both of these domains have been linked to Russia's Internet Research Agency and individuals under investigation by Robert Mueller's team. This latest discovery shows the problem is much worse than originally believed.

What happens when the front page of the internet is funded by the company that made the Great Firewall in China? Reddit, the internet forum for communities, posts, and news, is currently fundraising to keep itself afloat, with a $300 million goal. Half of that goal has already been met, thanks to a massive investment of $150 million from Chinese censorship company Tencent.

Reddit is raising $150 million to $300 million to keep the front page of the internet running, multiple sources tell TechCrunch. The forthcoming Series D round is said to be led by Chinese tech giant Tencent at a $2.7 billion pre-money valuation. Depending on how much follow-on cash Reddit drums up from Silicon Valley investors and beyond, its post-money valuation could reach an epic $3 billion. As more people seek esoteric community and off-kilter entertainment online, Reddit continues to grow its link-sharing forums. Indeed, 330 million monthly active users now frequent its 150,000 Subreddits.

Who really thinks about where the money is coming from as long as you get the money?

Last September, a Reddit user called DivestTrump uploaded a detailed report to Reddit about suspicious political posts that targeted the site's main pro-Trump discussion forum. The content chiefly originated from two websites, brutalist.press and usareally.com, which have both been linked to Russia's Internet Research Agency and individuals under investigation by Robert Mueller's FBI probe.

In the words of the power users: "It's like the 2015 blackout, but instead of going private we will ban every participant of a hateful harassing subreddit from as many subreddits as possible. Unlike the blackout, this will only effect the cause of the problem." Notable subreddits being targeted by the Reddit elite include r/SubredditCancer, r/The_Donald and r/TheRedPill.

“We Are the Nerds,” by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, tells the story of the popular internet platform whose unfettered embrace of free expression has proved controversial.

Alexis Ohanian, Co-founder of Reddit and Initialized Capital, talks to CNN's Samuel Burke about concerns facing the tech industry - including sexual harassment, hate speech and gender equality.

One Redditor is considering employing third-world labour to grind gold for him in Red Dead Online. LeRedditArtist asked whether this would be a viable option since he'd rather help some poor kids than hand over his cash to Rockstar. Just when we thought nothing can surprise us these days, a new gem has surfaced on Reddit. This time it's all about Red Dead Online gold grind, which was criticised by the players since the open beta kicked off.

It's been a big year for Reddit. The internet's largest privately held social site posted its 2018 year in review on Tuesday, revealing new statistics on the massive volume of content its users produced and the range of topics they covered. So far in 2018, 153 million posts have been made to Reddit, with those posts getting 1.2 billion comments. (Little-known fact: Redditors type in 50,000 words per minute.)

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?

Here are 5 sources of online traffic that you are not using but should use to get an edge over you competitors.

A list of design-focused subreddits.

Wish you knew how to market on reddit? Reddit is quickly becoming a big source of traffic and sales for the tech savvy businesses which are using it.

Using reddit to market your business? Here's a handy how to guide to design a subreddit especially for your business.

germl at reddit nailed down the front page of reddit with this amazing photo. Only one problem - it wasn't theirs!

Reddit has revealed how it plans to distribute $5 million to its users.

Women who negotiate salaries often look either weak or greedy. Ellen Pao wants to fix that.

Vote manipulation. Banned journalists and YouTubers. Reddit moderators who enjoy a disproportionate amount of influence. Not all is well in the commun...

Five subreddits – including r/fatpeoplehate and r/hamplanethatred – removed from social news site as site chiefs say: ‘We’re banning behavior, not ideas’

I know that most of the people on Reddit jumped ship to Voat, but that place caved under pressure almost immediately. Their voting system is also quite questionable, with the requirements to attain a certain amount of votes before you can vote yourself making it easy for some users to have extra power over the others. I'd like to know however, do you feel like this is a suitable replacement? This is merely for conversations' sake. It looks more media / pictures oriented, so it makes me wonde

Wednesday, Washington Examiner reporter Ashe Schow released an article featuring a story about an Amherst College male student who blacked out after drinking alcohol and accompanied a fellow student back ...

Motherboard talks to a handful of the most vocal opponents of Reddit's crackdown on harassment.

Reddit has started shutting down harassing, hate-filled communities. The backlash shows how America may be doomed.

The Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers venture capital firm should get nearly $276,000 instead of the $973,000 it sought from former partner Ellen Pao to cover the cost of successfully defending

While most humans with hearts mourned the church massacre, the trolls of a racist subreddit worried about how the killings would make them look in the ‘Jew-owned media.’