Reddit hit with $20 million UK data privacy fine over child safety failings
abcnews - Britain’s privacy watchdog fines Reddit nearly $20 million for unlawfully collecting and using children’s personal data
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Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users
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Reddit (RDDT) Stock: Earnings Spark a 20% After-Hours Jump After 70% Revenue Surge and 75% Ad Revenue Growth
Yasmin Werner / parameter - TLDR Reddit spikes after hours as earnings reveal record revenue momentum Advertising growth fuels strongest quarterly expansion in company history Profit surge highlights major improvement in operating efficiency Full-year results confirm scaling strengt…
Back to Top / Thursday, February 5, 2026, 6:22 pm / permalink 18814 / 6 stories in 29 days
A Reddit-like social network for AI agents is getting weird, and memecoin traders are cashing in
Aoyon Ashraf / coindesk - Moltbook’s viral posts and strange user behavior memecoins, including MOLT soaring more than 7,000%.
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Back to Top / Friday, January 30, 2026, 5:21 pm / permalink 18583 / 30 stories in 5 wks
Digg Launches Its New Reddit Rival To the Public
BeauHD / slashdot - Digg is officially back under the ownership of its original founder, Kevin Rose, along with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. "Similar to Reddit, the new Digg offers a website and mobile app where you can browse feeds featuring posts from across a selecti…
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Viral Reddit Post About Food Delivery Apps Was an AI Scam
BeauHD / slashdot - A viral Reddit "whistleblower" post accusing a major food delivery app of systemic exploitation is "most likely AI-generated," reports the Verge. From the report: The original post by user Trowaway_whistleblow alleged that an unnamed food delivery company…
Back to Top / Monday, January 5, 2026, 5:20 pm / permalink 17517 / 7 stories in 2 months
Reddit Files Lawsuit Against Australia’s Social Media Ban
Usman Qureshi / iphoneincanada - Reddit has sued Australia’s government over the new under-16 social media ban, arguing it violates free speech and privacy rights.The post Reddit Files Lawsuit Against Australia’s Social Media Ban first appeared on iPhone in Canada.
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Reddit files High Court challenge against u16s social media ban
Nathan Jolly / mumbrella - Reddit has filed High Court documents attempting to overturn the under-16 social media ban. According to court documents, Reddit will argue against the legality of the ban itself, as well as Reddit’s designation as a social media platform. Reddit has appo…
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Back to Top / Thursday, December 11, 2025, 6:21 pm / permalink 16859 / 14 stories in 2 months
Reddit is testing verification
Jay Peters / theverge - Reddit is starting to test verified profiles, the company announced today. Users who are verified as part of this "limited alpha test" will have a gray checkmark next to their username "across profiles, communities, feeds, post detail pages, and search re…
Back to Top / Wednesday, December 10, 2025, 2:42 pm / permalink 16797 / 4 stories in 2 months
Australia's Bold Move: No Social Media Access for Those Under 16
Alex Valdes / cnet - Countries around the world will be watching to see how well the new ban works ... or doesn't.
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Reddit sues Perplexity over alleged large-scale data scraping
Emre Çıtak / dataconomy - Reddit has filed a lawsuit against the answer-engine company Perplexity and three data-scraping service providers, SerpApi, Oxylabs, and AWMProxy. The legal action seeks to halt what Reddit’s complaint describes as the unlawful, industrial-scale circumven…
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Reddit Sues AI Startup Over Unlawful Data Scraping
Reddit has initiated legal action against an AI startup and affiliated data‐scraping services over unauthorized use of its content to train models. The suit alleges large-scale circumvention of data protections, sparking concerns about how user‐generated content is exploited for AI training.
Back to Top / Wednesday, October 22, 2025, 2:20 pm / permalink 15319 / 6 stories in 4 months
Reddit wants a better AI deal with Google: users in exchange for content
Robert Hart / theverge - Reddit wants more users and more money from Google in exchange for an even bigger mountain of data feeding its AI machine, according to Bloomberg. The negotiation shows a new front in the struggle between Big AI and content providers as they try to harves…
Back to Top / Thursday, September 18, 2025, 8:21 am / permalink 14685 / 3 stories in 5 months
Reddit Launches Free Publisher Tools in Strategic Push to Become a Search Destination
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Reddit is launching free new tools for publishers via its Reddit Pro platform, offering analytics and AI-powered suggestions to support its pivot to a search engine.The post Reddit Launches Free Publisher Tools in Strategic Push to Become a Search Destina…
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Reddit says AI companies misused the Wayback Machine to scrape its content
Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - Reddit is heavily restricting the Internet Archive's access to its platform.The article Reddit says AI companies misused the Wayback Machine to scrape its content appeared first on THE DECODER.
Back to Top / Tuesday, August 12, 2025, 9:22 am / permalink 12131 / 2 stories in 6 months
Reddit will block the Internet Archive
Jay Peters / theverge - Reddit says that it has caught AI companies scraping its data from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, so it’s going to start blocking the Internet Archive from indexing the vast majority of Reddit. The Wayback Machine will no longer be able to crawl …
Back to Top / Monday, August 11, 2025, 1:20 pm / permalink 12074 / 10 stories in 6 months
Reddit Shifting Towards Search as Company Wants to Become a Search Engine
Alex Valdes / cnet - Reddit CEO Steve Huffman wants to expand Reddit Answers to capitalize on increasing demand for Reddit results.
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Reddit puts its plans for paid subreddits on hold
Karissa Bell / engadget - Reddit is reversing course on its plans to put some subreddits behind a paywall, at least for now. CEO Steve Huffman said the company is "shifting resources away" from the effort as it doubles down on search.During the company's recent earnings call, Huff…
Back to Top / Friday, August 1, 2025, 2:20 pm / permalink 11459 / 2 stories in 7 months
Reddit should be a 'go-to search engine,' Steve Huffman says
Karissa Bell / engadget - Reddit is going to be leaning even harder into search in the coming months. The company has already been working on a plan to integrate its LLM-powered search into its main search feature, but CEO Steve Huffman said he wants users to think of the site as …
Back to Top / Thursday, July 31, 2025, 7:20 pm / permalink 11405 / 2 stories in 7 months
Reddit revenue soars as it bets on AI and advertising
Lauren Forristal / techcrunch - Reddit reported its Q2 earnings, and it’s clear that its focus on AI has ramped up significantly.
Back to Top / Thursday, July 31, 2025, 6:21 pm / permalink 11400 / 2 stories in 7 months