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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.
As Reddit signed AI data-licensing deals worth over $200 million ahead of its March 2024 IPO, the FTC opened a non-public inquiry into Reddit's sale and licensing of user-generated content to train AI models, amid a broader backlash over monetizing users' posts without compensation or meaningful consent.
Reddit's storytelling subreddits — r/AmItheAsshole and r/nosleep among them — have a documented problem of fabricated and increasingly AI-generated posts presented as real, with one analysis estimating AI-generated content reached roughly 41% of sampled r/nosleep posts in 2024.
A self-described troll who wrote under the handle 'CartoonsHateHer' admitted authoring numerous fabricated posts that went viral on r/AmItheAsshole and similar communities, exposing how much of Reddit's most-shared 'real life' drama is invented.
A recurring Reddit-specific scam sees criminals impersonate moderators or the 'admin team' via private messages and chat, sending fake 'verification' or 'suspension appeal' links to phishing pages that harvest credentials and 2FA codes for account takeover — and sometimes payment.
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.
Weeks after Reddit's $60M/year data-licensing deal with Google, Google's new AI Overviews feature repackaged satirical and dangerous Reddit posts — telling users to glue cheese to pizza and eat rocks — as authoritative search answers.
On a 2024 earnings call, CEO Steve Huffman suggested Reddit might place some new subreddits behind paywalls, prompting moderators to object that they would effectively be charged for — or asked to produce — content they create for free.
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.
By July 2024 Reddit's robots.txt changes had blocked Bing, DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, Qwant and other engines from indexing recent Reddit content, while Google retained access under a reported $60 million annual AI-data deal — making Google effectively the only search engine able to surface fresh Reddit results.