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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 September 2025 Reddit joined other publishers backing 'Really Simple Licensing', a standard meant to make AI crawlers pay for content — extending Reddit's effort to monetize user-generated posts as AI training data, and its enforcement war against unpaid scrapers.
After a deadly bombing outside a California fertility clinic whose perpetrator had referenced fringe anti-natalist communities, Reddit banned r/Efilism under its self-harm policies, reviving questions about when the platform acts against extreme ideologies.
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, where Anthropic's demurrer arguing federal preemption was argued in August 2026 with no ruling yet.
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.
Isaac Sissel created Reddit accounts and posted, days before the 2024 election, that he would carry out an attack; he pleaded guilty to transmitting interstate threats and was sentenced to 30 months in 2025.
Through 2025 Reddit's volunteer moderators warned that a flood of AI-generated 'slop' and rage-bait was overwhelming communities and degrading content quality, even as the company posted record revenue partly built on licensing that same user content to AI firms.
At Cannes Lions in June 2025, Reddit launched AI advertising tools under the 'Reddit Community Intelligence' brand, including features that surface users' own posts beneath brand ads and mine community conversations for marketers, reviving debate over monetizing user-generated content.
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.
After UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot dead in December 2024, Reddit suspended a moderator, banned multiple Mangione fan subreddits, and rolled out warnings to users who upvoted 'violent content' — drawing accusations of inconsistent, heavy-handed moderation.