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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.
A former Reddit content moderator, Maya Amerson, sued the company in San Francisco Superior Court alleging that years of reviewing extreme violence and abuse material caused her PTSD and that management ignored her requests to be reassigned, in a case that became part of a wave of moderator-harm litigation against Big Tech.
Reddit's 'delete' is a soft delete: removed posts and comments vanish from public view but persist in Reddit's systems, in third-party archives that captured them at posting time, and in users' own GDPR data exports — a gap between user expectation and reality that became a documented privacy concern.
Reddit was one of nine companies ordered by the FTC to disclose its data practices for a sweeping 6(b) study; the 2024 staff report found pervasive surveillance of users and weak protections for children and teens across the industry.
Reddit joined Yelp, Glassdoor, Indeed, Tripadvisor and PubPeer in a New York appeal supporting an anonymous blogger; the Appellate Division quashed subpoenas seeking the blogger's identity and adopted the protective Dendrite standard for unmasking anonymous speakers.
After Robinhood halted buying of GameStop and other Reddit-driven meme stocks on Jan. 28, 2021, dozens of retail-investor suits were consolidated into an MDL; the antitrust theory was ultimately dismissed and affirmed on appeal in 2024.
Volunteer moderators of r/law and r/SCOTUS, plus Reddit itself, filed amicus briefs urging the Supreme Court to strike down Texas and Florida social-media laws; the Court unanimously vacated the lower rulings and strongly affirmed platforms' editorial discretion.
When Keith Gill resurfaced in 2024, an investor filed a securities-fraud class action alleging a GameStop 'pump-and-dump' tied to his Reddit/X posts; he voluntarily dismissed it three days later, without prejudice.
A scientist obtained a sweeping restraining order against a Reddit moderator who criticised her over the Lucy Letby case, but a California court quashed it for lack of jurisdiction and called the anti-SLAPP arguments compelling.
Former UFC champion Ronda Rousey's August 2024 AMA promoting a graphic novel was overrun by questions about a 2013 Sandy Hook conspiracy video she had reposted; days later she issued a lengthy apology.
During Reddit's multi-year IPO registration, SEC staff issued a series of comment letters scrutinizing its accounting and, notably, how it counts daily active users while stripping out bots and crawlers — a regulatory review, not an enforcement action.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton opened an investigation into Reddit and more than a dozen other companies over compliance with the state's SCOPE Act and data-privacy law, focusing on the collection and targeting of minors' data.