The CEO of Reddit has admitted that he edited comments in a pro-Trump discussion board, saying he “messed with” some of the comments “for about an hour,” and has apologized.
The Reddit users, known as “redditors,” were already seething this week when the site that describes itself as “the front page of the Internet” banned the “Pizzagate” discussion board, where a conspiracy theory was being floated about Hillary Clinton running a pedophilia ring. Pizzagate went down due to a violation of “content policy” after users began posting the personal information of real people who were tied into the theory, like a pizza restaurant owner in Washington, after which they reportedly received death threats.
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