Issues Database

Anonymous moderators of a subreddit critical of YouTuber Ethan Klein fought his legal effort to compel Reddit and Discord to reveal their identities, arguing that unmasking would expose them to harassment, extortion, and threats of violence.

Reddit sued Anthropic in California state court, alleging the AI company scraped Reddit content without a license to train its Claude models despite publicly claiming it had blocked its bots, with crawlers said to have accessed Reddit more than 100,000 times.

Reddit sued Perplexity AI and three data-scraping intermediaries in federal court, alleging an industrial-scale scheme to harvest Reddit content from Google search results to feed AI products in violation of the DMCA.

In December 2025 Reddit filed a constitutional challenge in the High Court of Australia, arguing the country's under-16 social-media ban and age-verification mandate burden the implied freedom of political communication.

In June 2025 Reddit sued Anthropic, alleging it scraped Reddit content over 100,000 times to train Claude without a licence; in 2026 a court remanded the state-law claims back to California state court.

In October 2025 Reddit sued Perplexity AI alongside scraping companies Oxylabs, AWMProxy, and SerpApi, alleging an 'industrial-scale' operation to harvest Reddit content from Google results and sell or use it.

On 25 July 2025 Reddit began requiring UK users to verify their age with government ID or a face scan to view adult and other 'mature' content, triggering a backlash over privacy and over-blocking of support communities.

Investors filed a securities class action alleging Reddit misled the market about how Google's AI search features were eroding its user traffic, after the stock fell sharply in May 2025; the case is pending in the Northern District of California.

The January 31, 2024 Senate Judiciary child-safety hearing and the KOSA/STOP CSAM legislative push intensified bipartisan momentum to roll back Section 230 — the liability shield Reddit calls existential — while Stanford research highlighted weak, uneven CSAM reporting across the platform ecosystem.

A California class action alleged Reddit misclassified roughly 120 workers as exempt and denied them overtime and breaks; Reddit agreed to a $525,000 settlement, with content moderators forming a subclass.

Canada's Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act introduced in February 2024, proposed sweeping duties on social-media operators — covering platforms such as Reddit — before lapsing when Parliament was dissolved.