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Reddit CEO Admits To Editing User Comments Amid Pizzagate Malarkey (cnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the abusing-power dept.

Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit, today admitted to editing several comments that criticized him on the site. He made the admission on Reddit, where he posts under the username Spez. CNET adds: Huffman got a lot of flak from members of the The_Donald, a subreddit for supporters of President-elect Donald Trump, after Reddit banned the Pizzagate subreddit. Pizzagate was dedicated to a debunked conspiracy theory linking Hillary Clinton to a paedophile ring. In response, he edited comments reading "fuck Spez" to instead be directed at moderators of the The_Donald subreddit. "I messed with the "fuck u/spez" comments, replacing "spez" with r/the_donald mods for about an hour. It's been a long week here trying to unwind the r/pizzagate stuff," he wrote. "As much as we try to maintain a good relationship with you all, it does get old getting called a pedophile constantly." Huffman added: "Our community team is pretty pissed at me, so I most assuredly won't do this again."

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  1. Re:And what else? by AmiMoJo · · Score: 0, Troll

    This happens over and over again. There doesn't seem to be a solution that actually works

    4chan, of all places, lost its shit when the owner had to ban GamerGate. Reddit has been upsetting certain groups of users for years but the much hyped move to Voat didn't materialise. You can't post the n-word on Slashdot any more, probably for advertising reasons. YouTube similarly stopped certain videos being monetised. Twitter bans persistent trolls.

    Run your own blog maybe?

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  2. The fascists aren't trump supporters. They're you. by sethstorm · · Score: 1, Troll

    Because reddit has realised that angry, toxic crazies are making it miserable for the more sane majority - yet choosing to defend the crazies from the sane majority of Trump supporters

    You mean the crazies that have stolen cars just for being white owned ("We caught a Trump!") or vandalized for having a Trump sticker (where a silver Mustang was burned & spray-painted)? Or would you like to talk about the crazies in UNC Chapel Hill that called for actions against Pence?

    There went your narrative with those pesky facts.

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