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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.
Reddit's transparency reports count hundreds of thousands of appeals against its sanctions each year, with reversal rates Reddit reports between roughly 12.5% and 38% depending on year and report scope. Reddit acknowledged one automated rule that incorrectly suspended a moderator; press reports and moderators describe other suspensions that were reversed or went unanswered, and moderators describe false-report campaigns, though a reversal does not by itself show the first decision was an error.
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.
The EU's Digital Services Act imposed new transparency, point-of-contact, and content-moderation obligations on Reddit, which the European Commission designated a Very Large Online Platform on 31 August 2026 after Reddit reported 57.2 million average monthly EU users.
In October 2024 Reddit changed its rules so moderators could no longer switch a community to private or NSFW without first getting administrator approval — a move the company tied to user expectations but which critics saw as a direct curb on the protest tactic that powered the 2023 blackouts.