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Launched in April 2021 amid the Clubhouse-driven social-audio boom, Reddit Talk let communities host live audio rooms — then Reddit announced in March 2023 it would shut the feature down, blaming a vendor exit and shifting resources to video and search.
Reddit's 2023 API price hikes threatened to wipe out the third-party apps that blind and visually impaired users relied on for accessible access, forcing the company into a hastily announced and criticized exception for 'accessibility-focused' apps.
After the initial June 2023 API blackout failed to move Reddit, major subreddits including r/pics, r/aww and r/gifs held polls and reopened under a malicious-compliance rule allowing only images of comedian John Oliver. Oliver himself endorsed the stunt and supplied photos.
After the June 2023 API blackout, Reddit invoked its Moderator Code of Conduct to threaten and then remove the mod teams of subreddits that stayed dark, while CEO Steve Huffman dismissed moderators as 'landed gentry.' When protesters marked communities NSFW to strip out ads, Reddit issued final warnings and forced them back to SFW.
Climate-misinformation researchers who traced ExxonMobil-linked disinformation across social media included Reddit's climate communities (r/climate, r/climatechange) in their analysis, situating the platform within a documented, industry-funded effort to muddy public understanding of climate science.
A Moscow court fined Reddit two million rubles in August 2023 — its first such penalty in Russia — for failing to remove content the authorities deemed illegal, including material about the war in Ukraine.
Reddit's decision to charge punitive prices for API access killed popular third-party apps like Apollo and triggered the largest protest in the site's history — followed by the removal of protesting moderators.
Reddit's July 2023 r/place reboot arrived weeks after the API-pricing blackout, and protesting users hijacked the canvas to spell out anti-CEO slogans before coordinating to paint the whole board white.
After a Twitch broadcaster was caught having paid for non-consensual deepfake pornography of fellow female streamers, the clip and the underlying site circulated through Reddit's r/LivestreamFail, drawing fresh attention to how the platform amplifies such material.
After Reddit fired the admin who coordinated celebrity AMAs in 2015, r/IAmA slid into low-effort, PR-managed 'drive-by' promotional Q&As, and the format that once defined Reddit's appeal was widely declared a shadow of its former self.
Moderators of the 6.9-million-member r/CryptoCurrency dumped roughly $150,000 worth of the community's MOON token minutes before Reddit publicly announced it was shutting down the program that gave the token value — and were removed for what users called blatant insider trading.
A 2022 BBC Panorama investigation revealed a Reddit subreddit with more than 20,000 members dedicated to trading leaked and non-consensual explicit images of South Asian women, some of whom were blackmailed and harassed.