A sweeping controversy has erupted over this picture of two overweight women...
The most controversial post on Reddit Wednesday morning was a picture of two women in wheelchairs sitting in front of a little boy — also in a wheelchair — watching a basketball game.At first glance,...
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Someone claiming to be a veteran Amazon employee posted a rant on Reddit...
A Redditor describing himself on Tuesday as "an old man who has been at Amazon way too long" shared a controversial piece of advice for incoming interns."You are smart, driven, and are no doubt going...
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The Reddit employee whose dismissal led to massive protests has finally...
Victoria Taylor, the former Reddit employee whose dismissal led to the largest protests in the site's 10-year history, has finally broken her silence.In a post to the r/Self subreddit community, Taylor...
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Angry Reddit moderators wrote an op-ed shedding new light on last week's...
Two of the volunteer moderators who helped instigate the huge protests that shook Reddit late last week have written an op-ed for the New York Times, explaining why they took their community offline,...
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This website has a great chance at stealing Reddit's massive online community
The vast online community Reddit has been facing turmoil for the last month or so, peaking last week with the sudden departure of Victoria Taylor, a Reddit employee who spearheaded Reddit's popular...
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Ellen Pao is out at Reddit
Ellen Pao is stepping down as CEO of Reddit.Steve Huffman, Reddit's co-founder and original CEO, of the networking site is taking over the site immediately.Pao told Re/Code's Kara Swisher that it was...
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Ellen Pao says she quit because she couldn't meet the Reddit board's growth...
Ellen Pao is stepping down from Reddit because of a clash with the board on user growth, she wrote in her resignation letter."So why am I leaving? Ultimately, the board asked me to demonstrate higher...
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The 'Reddit Revolt' that led to Ellen Pao's resignation is bad news for the...
Interim Reddit CEO Ellen Pao stepped down today, following a week that saw the online community's users call for her head on a pike after the controversial firing of a well-liked employee.It's been...
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Here's how Reddit responded to CEO Ellen Pao's exit
While vitriol against the Reddit chief executive Ellen Pao dominated the site in the weeks leading up to her resignation on Friday, in the hours after her departure discussions centered on whether this...
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Reddit's rival got attacked by hackers
Reddit rival Voat has announced that it is currently being hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack by unknown hackers.Switzerland-based Voat posted on Twitter at midnight (GMT) on 13 July...
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Former Reddit CEO says Ellen Pao was framed
The Reddit drama continues, as former CEO Yishan Wong accuses co-founder Alexis Ohanian of making the controversial decision to fire a popular employee — a decision that led to the "Reddit Revolt" that...
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Reddit chief engineer quits after 2 months, says Pao was on a 'glass cliff'
Reddit chief engineer Bethanye Blount has stepped down after only two months on the job, Re/code reports.Blount joined the company two months ago from Facebook. She said her departure wasn't directly...
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Reddit is losing the war against its own users
Reddit is in turmoil. The social news and community site has spent weeks wracked by protests, high-profile staff departures, and staff bickering. It's a battle for the heart of the "front-page of the...
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Reddit's new CEO says it wasn't created 'to be a bastion of free speech'
In the wake of a seemingly neverending stream of controversy, Reddit co-founder and now freshman CEO Steve Huffman will host an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session this Thursday at 1pm PT to address the...
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Reddit's old CEO rewrites the history of Reddit and says 'the purge' of users...
Former Reddit CEO Yishan Wong is continuing to stoke the drama engulfing the site, claiming that Reddit's management is not as pro-free speech as commonly believed, and that Ellen Pao, who quit as CEO...
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Reddit CEO: 'Some communities currently on the platform should not be here at...
Reddit is trying to recover from its month-long meltdown, which resulted in interim CEO Ellen Pao stepping down from her role at the company.Now Reddit's new CEO, Steve Huffman, issued a "content...
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Ellen Pao: 'The trolls are winning' on Reddit
In an opinion piece for The Washington Post, former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao says that the "balancing act" between free expression and safety is "getting harder," and "the trolls are winning." "Reddit is...
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Reddit's new CEO is willing to sacrifice revenue for freedom of speech
In the wake of never-ending controversy, new Reddit CEO Steve Huffman proposed a new set of rules that clearly lay out what you can and can't say on the platform — and hopefully demonstrate that the...
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Here are all the promises Reddit's founders and new CEO are making
Reddit is trying to decide its future, now that it has ousted two CEOs and brought an original founder back in.With the community conflicted and mixed messages spreading, we put together a list of the...
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Racists celebrate Reddit's proposed new policy
Today, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced a proposed change to its content policy that would lock away the worst of the worst (porn, hate speech, anything that "violates common decency") behind a wall,...
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