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Elon Musk pressured Reddit’s CEO on content moderation
Nearly two months ago, Elon Musk went on a public crusade against Reddit. On X, he said it was âinsaneâ that subreddits were blocking links to the platform in protest of him appearing to give a Nazi salute. A few days later, he posted that Reddit users advocating for violence against Department of Government Efficiency […]
Nearly two months ago, Elon Musk went on a public crusade against Reddit.
On X, he said it was âinsaneâ that subreddits were blocking links to the platform in protest of him appearing to give a Nazi salute. A few days later, he posted that Reddit users advocating for violence against Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employees had âbroken the law.â
As it turns out, Musk wasnât only using his X platform to call out content on Reddit. He was also privately messaging Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, according to people familiar with the matter.
Shortly after the two CEOs exchanged text messages, Reddit enacted a 72-hour ban on the âWhitePeopleTwitterâ subreddit that hosted the thread about DOGE employees, citing the âprevalence of violent content.â The specific thread Musk shared on X was also deleted, including hundreds of comments that didnât call for violence or doxxing. (So far, Reddit doesnât appear to have intervened in any moderator decisions to ban X links from the subreddits they oversee.)
When asked about Musk and Huffmanâs correspondence, Reddit spokesperson Gina Antonini sent the following statement: âWe take any report of Reddit policy vi …
