Musk wasn’t happy about the speech on Reddit.

Summary

Elon Musk privately pressured Reddit CEO Steve Huffman to address content moderation after publicly criticizing Reddit on X for banning links and allegedly hosting violent content.

Shortly after Musk’s messages, Reddit imposed a 72-hour ban on the “WhitePeopleTwitter” subreddit, citing violent content, and deleted a thread Musk highlighted.

Reddit denies external influence but acknowledges evaluating reports seriously.

The controversy stirred discussions among Reddit moderators, some mocking Musk as a “giant baby.” Musk has not commented on the situation.

  • andyburke@fedia.io
    26·
    2 months ago

    Fine for me. Don’t need a lot of troll bots and junk opinions from the uninformed. 🤷‍♂️

      • gurnu@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        2 months ago

        Or all the inane/AI generated ragebait wall of texts on AITA and the like

        • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          AITAh was always fake story even before the AI came on board. around 90% were fake, the way you can tell is how proposterous some of the story sounds.

          • gurnu@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 month ago

            Oh definitely, the amount just has been compounded since the introduction of AI to consumers