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“Yep. I messed with the "fuck u/spez" comments, replacing "spez" with r/the_donald mods for about an hour,”

— Steve Huffman, CEO and co-founder of Reddit (username "spez")2016-11-23

Speaker: Steve Huffman
Role: CEO and co-founder of Reddit (username "spez")
Date: 2016-11-23
Type: exec

Context

Huffman admitted that, using his engineering access, he had secretly edited comments by r/The_Donald users that insulted him, silently redirecting the insults at the subreddit's own moderators.

Related issue

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman Secretly Edited User Comments in r/The_Donald

Sources

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TechCrunch — Reddit CEO admits he secretly edited comments
News2016
02
SFist — Reddit CEO Admits To Editing Comments In Trump-Related Subreddit
News2016