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The EU's Digital Services Act imposed new transparency, point-of-contact, and content-moderation obligations on Reddit, which self-reports tens of millions of EU users but has not been formally designated a Very Large Online Platform.
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.
In February 2024, days before its IPO, Reddit signed a content-licensing deal with Google reported at roughly $60 million per year, giving Google access via Reddit's Data API to train AI models on years of user content. The deal drew user unease over consent and triggered an FTC inquiry.
When Reddit went public on the NYSE (RDDT) in March 2024, it offered a slice of IPO shares to top moderators and users via a Directed Share Program. Many community members rejected the gesture as cynical, noting the volunteer moderators who built Reddit's value still received no compensation while CEO Steve Huffman earned $193 million in 2023.
In May 2024 Reddit licensed its user-generated content to OpenAI in a deal reportedly worth tens of millions annually, raising conflict-of-interest concerns because OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was Reddit's third-largest shareholder.
Reddit went public with a dual-class share structure that hands insiders ten votes per share, leaving CEO Steve Huffman and early backer Advance Publications with outsized control while public investors hold the economic risk.
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.
Reddit disclosed in 2024 that it had signed data-licensing deals worth hundreds of millions to let AI firms train on user posts — content created by users who were neither asked for consent nor offered any share of the proceeds.
Reddit's IPO paperwork revealed CEO Steve Huffman received roughly $193 million in 2023 compensation, drawing fierce criticism from the unpaid volunteer moderators whose labour underpins the platform.
A 2024 study offered the most rigorous measurement yet of Reddit's June 2020 'Great Ban': while most affected users left or became less toxic, roughly 5% reacted by sharply increasing their toxicity — quantifying both the efficacy and the radicalizing unintended consequences of mass deplatforming.