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+26 +3Reddit will start paying you real money for your karma
Reddit announced a contributor program on Monday, which awards users actual, real money for their fake internet points. Now, eligible users will be able
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+21 +6YouTube is axing its ad-free Premium Lite subscription plan
YouTube’s Premium Lite subscription is going away.
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+38 +9Yelp names and shames businesses paying for 5-star reviews
Plus: Amazon announced last week that two fake review brokers were arrested.
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+39 +5Reddit Is No Longer the "Weird" Social Media. It’s Also Not Quite Normal.
There’s the Reddit of ‘Dumb Money’ that prompted a major fiasco in the finance industry, and then there’s the Reddit of celebrity AMAs and refining your pedestrian Google searches. On today’s Reddit, you can have both.
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+35 +3Reddit users are reporting Christian websites for violating Virginia's new porn identification law, citing vulgar passages in the Bible
People are using Virginia's porn age verification law to flag Bible.com for adult content.
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+37 +6Pornhub Sues Texas Over Age Verification Law
The law would require a “Texas Health and Human Services Warning” on all porn sites.
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+43 +3Reddit is testing “official” labels for profiles and making parts of its app compatible with screen readers
The “Official” label is a small test to start.
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+35 +5No apologies as Reddit halfheartedly tries to repair ties with moderators
Disenchanted mods Ars spoke with want change, not more communication.
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+34 +5Bot Mess: AI-Generated Clickbait Will Hasten the Demise of Search and Web Publishing
Why should Google keep offering organic results if they’re written by a bot?
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+21 +3Reddit risks losing its identity in pursuit of profits
Reddit isn't profitable, despite having more than 50 million daily active users. In preparation for an IPO, CEO Steve Huffman put the platform's API
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+26 +4Security researchers latest to blast UK's Online Safety Bill as encryption risk
Nearly 70 IT security and privacy experts have added to the clamour of alarm over the damage the UK's Online Safety Bill could wreak to strong encryption.
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+23 +3How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history
Users were outraged, but Reddit mostly won.
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+22 +2Tech firms sue Arkansas over social media age verification law
A tech alliance including Meta and TikTok is suing Arkansas over its social media age verification law..
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+30 +7Fidelity deepens valuation cut for Reddit and Discord
Fidelity has further slashed the estimated worth of its holdings in Reddit and Discord as well as SaaS startup Gupshup.
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+22 +4Google execs admit users are 'not quite happy' with search experience after Reddit blackouts
Google executives acknowledged this month they need to do a better job surfacing user-generated content after the recent Reddit blackouts.
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+38 +5How Review-Bombing Can Tank a Book Before It’s Published
The website Goodreads has become an essential avenue for building readership, but the same features that help generate excitement can also backfire.
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+21 +2You think the internet is a clown show now? You ain’t seen nothing yet
Social media platforms are laying off their ‘trust and safety’ teams. Brace yourself for a new wave of unfettered misinformation and abuse
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+36 +11Reddit is about to get a little less accessible
Many accessibility advocates are frustrated with Reddit.
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+26 +4What we’re learning from the Reddit blackout
Five lessons and one open question.
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+23 +5Facebook Marketplace tops list of most complained-about online retail platforms
More than half of respondents representing about 50 local authorities in the UK identified Facebook as the most complained-about online marketplace.
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