It’s unclear right now how the accounts were compromised.

The notorious subreddit trafficked in violent rhetoric, growing a prodigious following over five years. Here’s how—and why—Reddit finally shut it down.

It’s probably not at all surprising that most content posted to Reddit is voted on more or less blindly. I’ll cop to liking articles that friends have shared on Facebook without reading, let alone evaluating them. I’d say there’s even sort of an aggregation myth that pervades our view of social media, that buried within discussions of fake news and social media corporate responsibility is this assumption that people are actually reading the articles, or at least that a lot of them are. The data, however, suggests that they aren’t.

The message board has been a longtime hub for supporters of President Trump.

Reddit says it’s releasing a fix for a piece of code that copied contents from users’ clipboards. Users in a beta version of iOS 14, which sends an alert when an app tries to copy clipboard information, reported receiving the alerts with each keystroke in Reddit’s iOS app.

On its best days, Reddit is an amazing place to be. On its worst days, oh boy.

Despite the site’s reputation as a sometimes-toxic rumor mill, Reddit has become an unlikely home for passionate users who aim to call out disinformation as it spreads.

Reddit said Wednesday it's joined forces with Crisis Text Line, a text message based crisis support hotline, to provide counseling to users who might be at risk of self harm. Anyone on Reddit can now flag a fellow user who they think might be struggling with self-harm or suicide based on something they post on the site. Those users will get a message in their Reddit inbox that explains the various online resources they can turn to for help and instructions on how to contact Crisis Text Line -- by texting "CHAT" to 741741.

Reddit users have taken to the network to find and share coronavirus news, but it still doesn't show verified information from officials like the CDC.

Last spring, a religious organization known as Jehovah's Witnesses subpoenaed Reddit, invoking the DMCA copyright law. They did this in order to learn the real-world identity of one Reddit user, aka, “Darkspliver” – who apparently at some point fell afoul of the organization's rules.

Facebook has launched a new chatbot that it claims is able to demonstrate empathy, knowledge and personality. "Blender" was trained using available public domain conversations which included 1.5 billion examples of human exchanges. The social media giant said 49% of people preferred interactions with the chatbot, compared with another human.

Reddit moderator Gallowboob is stepping away from the site after receiving doxxing and death threats, saying administrators view moderators as "expendable."

Twitter, Reddit, and Internet Association filed an amicus brief late yesterday in support of a lawsuit filed last year by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, the Brennan Center for Justice, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP on behalf of plaintiffs Doc Society and International Documentary Association, challenging rules that require nearly all visa applicants to register their social media handles with the U.S. government and connected policies permitting the retention and dissemination of that information.

Reddit Ireland has taken the "difficult decision" to shut down in the early hours of the morning, to limit the racist and extremist content posted from the US during daytime hours there. A multitude of accounts using false identities were to blame, it said. Moderators said having to check every comment on the group had pushed them to "breaking point".

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.