Musk wasn’t happy about the speech on Reddit.

Summary

Elon Musk privately pressured Reddit CEO Steve Huffman to address content moderation after publicly criticizing Reddit on X for banning links and allegedly hosting violent content.

Shortly after Musk’s messages, Reddit imposed a 72-hour ban on the “WhitePeopleTwitter” subreddit, citing violent content, and deleted a thread Musk highlighted.

Reddit denies external influence but acknowledges evaluating reports seriously.

The controversy stirred discussions among Reddit moderators, some mocking Musk as a “giant baby.” Musk has not commented on the situation.

  • running_ragged@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    There’s less posts sure, but when I left last year so much of Reddits front page content was just badly reposted bot garbage anyway.

    There were some specific communities where there we enough active real people posted to keep it interesting, but I could tell then where it was going, and as far as I can tell I wasn’t wrong.

    Artificially created content to force or fake engagement to drive ad sales isn’t any less dead than here.

    Also the fact that you’re giving your content up for free so spez can lock it behind paywalls is just insane.