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Elon Musk ‘pressured’ Reddit CEO to remove DOGE posts

World’s richest man’s alleged private plea came after a slew of attacks against his government slashing force and X links being banned on subreddits over his infamous salute

The Independent UK · Mar 28, 2025

First He Bought Twitter—Now Elon Musk's Trying to Control Reddit Too, Here's How

Elon Musk's attempts to shape Reddit's content moderation following his Twitter takeover have sparked controversy and his leadership of DOGE faces backlash.

International Business Times UK · Mar 28, 2025

Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report

Billionaire Tesla CEO and Trump ally Elon Musk allegedly pressured the CEO of social media platform Reddit to stifle users criticizing him or President Donald Trump, leaving platform moderators furious.

Latin Times · Mar 27, 2025

Sam Altman’s decade-old investment in Reddit is now worth over a billion dollars

Altman has known the Reddit founders since they were in the first class at Y Combinator, the famed startup accelerator he would go on to lead.

Fortune · Oct 30, 2024

Reddit shares soar after company turns first profit as a public company

Monthly users rose by nearly half thanks to AI translation feature, and deals for AI training with Google and OpenAI boosted revenue

The Guardian - US · Oct 30, 2024

Reddit's explosive user growth and AI tools help it soar to its first-ever profit

For the first time in its nearly 20-year history, Reddit is turning a profit

The Independent UK · Oct 30, 2024

Reddit will use AI to summarize its insanely long threads and could transform the service

Reddit will roll out an AI summarization tool for threads.

TechRadar · Aug 8, 2024

Reddit CEO says it's “a real pain in the ass to block these companies" from crawling the site, says Microsoft refuses to negotiate

Microsoft is reportedly refusing to pay for scrapping data from Reddit, or rather, it refuses to even talk to Reddit, so says its CEO in a new interview.

Windows Central · Jul 31, 2024

Reddit Gives OpenAI Access To Its Wealth Of Posts

OpenAI will have access to Reddit data for training its artificial intelligence models and will put its technology to work at the popular discussion platform, the companies said Thursday.

International Business Times · May 17, 2024

Social media company Reddit soars to $9bn valuation in Wall Street debut

San Francisco-based social media platform’s shares close at $50.44 in long-awaited initial public offering.

Al Jazeera · Mar 22, 2024