Reference

Sources & Citations

Every source cited across the archive, deduplicated by URL and counted by how often it's cited. This is the evidence base behind Reddit Watch — primary documents, official statements, court filings, academic research, and reporting.

1873 of 1873 unique sources

Every source cited across the archive, deduplicated by URL.
Outlet	Source	Type	Cited
25newsnow.com	25 News Now (WEEK): Former UIUC student arrested after threat	news	1
404media.co	404 Media — AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO'	news	2
404media.co	404 Media — Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search	news	2
404media.co	404 Media — Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users	news	2
404media.co	404 Media — Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal	news	1
404media.co	404 Media — It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search	news	1
404media.co	404 Media — Reddit's AI 'Reddit Answers' Suggests Users Try Heroin	news	1
404media.co	Jason Koebler — author page, 404 Media	official	1
40687240.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net	Reddit Inc. — Transparency Report: January to June 2024 (official)	official	1
4w.pub	4W — Reddit Bans Feminist Sub r/GenderCritical (list of removed gender-critical communities)	news	12
6abc.com	6abc Philadelphia: Post on Reddit unveils Lehigh student's fraud	news	1
911.gov	Public Safety Information on Swatting — National 911 Program	official	1
9to5google.com	Reddit killed third-party apps: RIF, Sync, and more Android clients shut down — 9to5Google	news	2
9to5mac.com	9to5Mac — 'Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO'	news	1
9to5mac.com	9to5Mac — "Reddit banned 90+ subreddits 'accidentally' but some are worried"	news	1
9to5mac.com	9to5Mac — Reddit blocking search engines except Google in AI paywall	news	1
9to5mac.com	9to5Mac — Reddit blocks non-profit Wayback Machine from archiving the site	news	1
9to5mac.com	9to5Mac — Reddit Directed Share Program invitations leave some unimpressed	news	1
aaai.org	The Pushshift Reddit Dataset (AAAI / ICWSM)	academic	2
aacounty.org	Anne Arundel County State's Attorney: Jury convicts Davidsonville man	official	1
aaronsw.com	Rewriting Reddit — Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought	other	1
abc13.com	ABC13 Houston - Federal judge blocks portion of Texas SCOPE Act on First Amendment grounds	news	1
abcnews.go.com	ABC News — 'Obama Does Reddit AMA: President Answers Questions and Crashes Site'	news	2
abcnews.go.com	ABC News — 'Police Investigate Reddit Murder Confession'	news	1
abcnews.go.com	Read an Excerpt of Alexis Ohanian's 'Without Their Permission' — ABC News	news	1
abcnews.go.com	Reddit replaces Alexis Ohanian's board seat with Michael Seibel — ABC News	news	1
about.fb.com	Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Explained — Meta	official	1
about.fb.com	Meta — 'Raising Online Defenses Through Transparency and Collaboration' (Spamouflage takedown announcement)	official	1
aclu.org	ACLU — Bye-Bye Birdie: Reddit's Warrant Canary Disappears	other	4
aclu.org	NetChoice v. Griffin case page (ACLU)	official	1
addons.mozilla.org	Moderator toolbox for reddit — Firefox Add-ons	official	2
adexchanger.com	AdExchanger — Billion-Dollar Reddit Upvotes AI Search, Downvotes Google's Algorithm	news	1
adexchanger.com	AdExchanger: FTC Denounces Social Media And Video Streaming Platforms For 'Privacy-Invasive' Data Practices	news	1
adexchanger.com	COO Jen Wong On Why Reddit Is Ready To Become A Mature Advertising Business — AdExchanger	news	1
adexchanger.com	Reddit Rolls Out Conversation Ads After Discarding Programmatic — AdExchanger	news	1
adexchanger.com	Reddit Rolls Out Three Flavors Of Brand Safety Inventory Controls — AdExchanger	news	1
adl.org	ADL — 'Computational Propaganda, Jewish-Americans and the 2018 Midterms'	other	1
advocate.com	The Advocate — Reddit Cracks Down on Hate Speech (names Dark Humor And Memes)	news	2
advocatenblad.nl	Het Advocatenblad — 'Reddit klaagt over schending verschoningsrecht'	news	1
adweek.com	'An Incredible Partner': Roxy Young Steps Down as Reddit CMO After 8 Years — Adweek	news	1
adweek.com	Adweek — 'Reddit's r/place April Fools' Stunt Was the Place to Be'	news	1
adweek.com	Adweek — Reddit Co-founder Steve Huffman Sheds Light on the Early Days (fake users)	news	1
adweek.com	Harold Klaje Becomes Reddit's First-Ever Chief Revenue Officer — Adweek	news	1
adweek.com	Laura Nestler Joins Reddit as VP of Community — Adweek	news	1
adweek.com	Reddit Acqui-Hires Oterlu, Developer of Machine-Learning-Powered Moderation Tools — Adweek	news	1
adweek.com	Reddit Adds Conversation Placement Option for Advertisers — Adweek	news	1
adweek.com	Reddit Adds Patricia Fili-Krushel to Board of Directors — Adweek	news	1
adweek.com	Reddit Adds Paula Price to Board of Directors — Adweek	news	1
adweek.com	Reddit Brings on Former Meta Exec as It Continues to Woo Marketers — Adweek	news	1
ai4good.org	AI for Good Foundation — Bot Sentinel finds accounts spreading hate toward Amber Heard	other	1
aidsunited.org	AIDS United — 'FOSTA-SESTA and its impact on sex workers'	other	1
alternativeto.net	AlternativeTo — Reddit is sunsetting its Gold Awards System and plans a simpler one in the future	news	1
altoonamirror.com	Altoona Mirror: Child porn plea yields prison time	news	1
amatranscripts.com	AMA Transcripts — 'Bill Cosby Reddit AMA Transcript' (15 June 2014)	other	1
amatranscripts.com	AMA Transcripts — Chris Hadfield Reddit AMA	other	1
amatranscripts.com	AMA Transcripts — Morgan Freeman Reddit AMA (11 April 2013)	other	1
amazon.com	Poems for Your Sprog (Garland / Long) — Amazon listing	other	1
amplifytalent.com	Reddit Chief People & Culture Officer Nellie Peshkov on Building Employee Trust — Amplify Talent	other	1
androidauthority.com	Android Authority — Reddit sunsets Gold awards system	news	3
androidauthority.com	Android Authority - Having trouble with Reddit today? Here's what's going on	news	1
androidpolice.com	Android Police — 'Reddit's block function now (likely unintentionally) lets strangers control your account'	news	1
androidpolice.com	Sync for Lemmy: a popular Reddit app gets a second life — Android Police	news	1
antihate.ca	Canadian Anti-Hate Network — 'Honk Honk' Was An Antisemitic Meme Long Before The Convoy Started Using It	other	1
aol.com	AOL / Nexstar — 'Self-proclaimed serial killer tied to Reddit warning killed by Louisville police'	news	1
aol.com	AOL/Fortune — Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian on the dead internet theory	news	1
api.ooni.io	OONI aggregation data — reddit.com blocks in the UAE broken down by network/ASN	academic	1
api.ooni.io	OONI aggregation data — reddit.com confirmed blocked on UAE networks (probe_cc=AE)	academic	1
appleinsider.com	Reddit app Apollo is shutting down over Reddit's expensive API prices — AppleInsider	news	1
archive.attn.com	attn: (archive) — '7 Ridiculous Things We Learned from Martin Shkreli's Reddit AMA'	news	1
archive.org	Internet Archive — Reddit /r/ProEDMemes Community Archive (captured before the Nov 14, 2018 ban)	other	1
archive.thinkprogress.org	Why Reddit's Science Forum Banned Climate Deniers (Allen) — ThinkProgress (archived)	news	1
arxiv.org	arXiv — The Great Ban: Efficacy and Unintended Consequences of a Massive Deplatforming Operation on Reddit	academic	6
arxiv.org	The Pushshift Reddit Dataset — arXiv	academic	4
arxiv.org	Winning Arguments: Interaction Dynamics and Persuasion Strategies (WWW 2016) — arXiv	academic	3
arxiv.org	arXiv — 'Do Platform Migrations Compromise Content Moderation? Evidence from r/The_Donald and r/Incels'	academic	2
arxiv.org	arXiv — Finkelstein et al., 'A Quantitative Approach to Understanding Online Antisemitism'	academic	2
arxiv.org	arXiv — Safe Spaces or Toxic Places? Content Moderation and Social Dynamics of Online Eating Disorder Communities	academic	2
arxiv.org	Do Platform Migrations Compromise Content Moderation? Evidence from r/The_Donald and r/Incels (arXiv)	academic	2
arxiv.org	'The Doge of Wall Street: Analysis and Detection of Pump and Dump Cryptocurrency Manipulations' (arXiv)	academic	1
arxiv.org	An Exploration of the Dynamics of Buy and Sale of Social Media Accounts — arXiv	academic	1
arxiv.org	arXiv — 'The Peripatetic Hater: Predicting Movement Among Hate Subreddits'	academic	1
arxiv.org	arXiv — 'Understanding Online Migration Decisions Following the Banning of Radical Communities'	academic	1
arxiv.org	arXiv — A black market for upvotes and likes (full PDF)	academic	1
arxiv.org	arXiv — A black market for upvotes and likes (Mihály Héder, abstract)	academic	1
arxiv.org	arXiv — How do climate change skeptics engage with opposing views? (Reddit forum study)	academic	1
arxiv.org	arXiv — The Role of Science in the Climate Change Discussions on Reddit	academic	1
arxiv.org	The Evolution of the Manosphere Across the Web (arXiv)	academic	1
aspistrategist.org.au	ASPI The Strategist — 'As Taiwan voted, Beijing spammed AI avatars, faked paternity tests and leaked fake documents'	academic	1
athlonoutdoors.com	Athlon Outdoors — On Easter Sunday, the Reddit Gun Deals Community Rose Again	news	1
atlanticcouncil.org	Jessica Ashooh — Atlantic Council	official	1
avclub.com	The A.V. Club — 'Royel Otis guitarist tries to stifle misconduct allegations with a Reddit dragnet'	news	1
awfulannouncing.com	Awful Announcing — 'Ronda Rousey Reddit "AMA" flooded with questions about her beliefs regarding Sandy Hook'	news	1
aws.amazon.com	What is an API? — AWS	official	1
axios.com	Axios — 'Online conspiracy theory links child trafficking to Wayfair furniture sales'	news	1
axios.com	Axios — FTC launches inquiry into Reddit's AI deals, ahead of IPO	news	1
axios.com	Axios — Reddit suing Perplexity over data scraping	news	1
axios.com	Reddit appoints Y Combinator CEO Michael Seibel to board — Axios	news	1
axios.com	Reddit raises $250 million at $6 billion valuation — Axios	news	1
bamsec.com	BamSEC: Reddit, Inc. filings index showing CORRESP filings (March 2024)	other	1
bandt.com.au	Meta's Jim Squires jumps ship for Reddit EVP role — B&T	news	1
beincrypto.com	BeInCrypto — 'SQUID Ranks as One of the Biggest Crypto Rug Pulls'	news	1
billboard.com	Billboard — 'Royel Otis guitarist seeks to identify sexual-misconduct accusers'	news	2
binghamton.edu	Study shows users banned from social platforms go elsewhere with increased toxicity — Binghamton News	official	1
biometricupdate.com	Biometric Update — Big social media platforms all covered by Australian social ban	news	1
biometricupdate.com	Biometric Update: Court challenges to Australia's age checks for social media consolidated	news	1
biometricupdate.com	Biometric Update: Reddit files High Court challenge to Australia's social media age restrictions	news	1
bitcoinmagazine.com	Bitcoin Magazine — 'So Very Wow! Dogecoin Sponsors A NASCAR Racer'	news	1
bitdefender.com	Bitdefender — 'Fake BBC and Guardian Reddit Ads Push Investment Scams'	other	1
bitdefender.com	Bitdefender: Reddit hacked - but don't give up on 2FA just yet	other	1
bleepingcomputer.com	BleepingComputer — Reddit Announces Security Breach After Hackers Bypassed Staff's 2FA	news	3
bleepingcomputer.com	BleepingComputer — Reddit Bans Community Dedicated to Dark Web Markets	news	2
bleepingcomputer.com	BleepingComputer — Reddit hackers threaten to leak data stolen in February breach	news	2
bleepingcomputer.com	BleepingComputer — Reddit hit by coordinated hack promoting Trump's reelection	news	2
bleepingcomputer.com	BleepingComputer — 'New York man faces cyberstalking charge after sharing AI-generated nudes online'	news	1
bleepingcomputer.com	BleepingComputer — 'Slovakian man pleads guilty to operating Kingdom Market cybercrime marketplace'	news	1
bleepingcomputer.com	BleepingComputer — Reddit Users Locked Out of Their Accounts for Unusual Activity	news	1
blockworks.co	Blockworks — 'SafeMoon accused of securities fraud in SEC lawsuit'	news	1
blog.cloudflare.com	Cloudflare — Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025	official	1
blog.ericgoldman.org	Reddit Defeats Lawsuit Over WallStreetBets Subreddit — Rogozinski v. Reddit (Eric Goldman, Technology & Marketing Law Blog)	academic	2
blog.ericgoldman.org	Eric Goldman, Technology & Marketing Law Blog — 'Defendants Get Important FOSTA Win in 9th Circuit–Doe v. Reddit'	academic	1
blog.ericgoldman.org	Eric Goldman, Technology & Marketing Law Blog — Recent Section 230 Decisions Involving Sex Abuse or CSAM (Doe v. Reddit)	academic	1
blog.google	Defending Search users from 'Parasite SEO' spam — Google	official	1
blog.google	Google Blog (Liz Reid) — About last week (AI Overviews update, May 2024)	official	1
blog.google	Google expands partnership with Reddit — Google	official	1
blog.google	Google Threat Analysis Group — 'New efforts to disrupt DRAGONBRIDGE spam activity'	official	1
blog.lopp.net	Jameson Lopp (blog) — 'Moderation Methods vs Censorship Claims'	other	1
blog.torproject.org	The State of Internet Censorship in Indonesia - Tor Project / OONI	academic	1
blog.torproject.org	The Tor Project — 'Internet Censorship in Iran: Findings from 2014-2017'	other	1
blogs.smartrules.com	SmartRules Blog - Judge Rules Reddit Does Not Have To Comply With Subpoena	other	1
bloomberg.com	Bloomberg — 'How a Fox News Interview Led to AntiWork Subreddit Chaos, Boosted WorkReform'	news	2
bloomberg.com	Bloomberg — 'Roaring Kitty' Sued Over Alleged GameStop 'Pump and Dump'	news	2
bloomberg.com	Bloomberg — Reddit Sues Perplexity, Others Over Alleged Data Scraping	news	2
bloomberg.com	Ben Lee, Reddit Inc — Bloomberg profile	news	1
bloomberg.com	Bloomberg — BitConnect Promoter Gets 38 Months in $2.4 Billion Ponzi Scam	news	1
bloomberg.com	Bloomberg — Trump's DOJ Ramps Up Probes of Anonymous ICE Critics With X, Reddit Subpoenas	news	1
bloomberg.com	Laura Nestler, Reddit Inc — Bloomberg profile	news	1
bloomberg.com	Reddit Acquires Generative AI Startup Memorable AI — Bloomberg	news	1
boia.org	Bureau of Internet Accessibility — 4 Web Accessibility Lessons from Reddit's API Controversy	other	1
boingboing.net	Boing Boing — Google's AI search suggests glue on pizza and eating rocks	news	1
bolster.ai	Bolster — 'Why Reddit's Identity Verification Process is a Goldmine for Synthetic ID Fraud'	other	1
bostonglobe.com	Boston Globe — 'Roaring Kitty' says he wasn't part of any coordinated effort	news	1
bostonmagazine.com	Boston Magazine — 'Game of Fear: The Story Behind GamerGate'	news	2
bpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.com	In re DMCA Subpoena to Reddit, Inc., 441 F.Supp.3d 875 (N.D. Cal. 2020) — opinion PDF	court	1
breitbart.com	Breitbart — Reddit Revolt Flares Again as 'AMA' Moderator Sacked the Day After a Disastrous Jesse Jackson Q&A	news	1
britannica.com	Britannica — 'Doxing' (history and notable cases)	other	1
britannica.com	Britannica — 'Gamergate'	other	1
britannica.com	Deepfake — Encyclopaedia Britannica	other	1
britannica.com	Reddit — Britannica Money	other	1
brobible.com	BroBible — Did Ghislaine Maxwell Run One Of The Most Powerful Reddit Accounts? An Investigation	other	1
bu.edu	Boston University (The Brink) — Researchers Are Fighting against Climate Misinformation	academic	1