“This was a case of me trolling the trolls for a bit,” he added in a reply to another user. Our community team is pretty pissed at me, so I most assuredly won’t do this again,” he wrote. As the CEO, I shouldn’t play such games, and it’s all fixed now.
“As much as we try to maintain a good relationship with you all, it does get old getting called a pedophile constantly. While he went public with an admission, he stopped short of an apology. Huffman, who left Reddit to start travel site Hipmunk in 2010 before returning last year to replace Ellen Pao, said he made the changes to messages in response to critical and abusive comments that he received in the wake of closure. The story was fabricated, but it gained attention on social media, so much so that The New York Times wrote about it.Īs you’d expect, the rumors made their way to Reddit, only for the company management to close the Pizzagate subreddit because it violated terms and conditions around posting an individual’s private information.
The issue surrounds #pizzagate, a fake news story about a Washington-based pizza restaurant said to be the center point of a child trafficking operation run by Hillary Clinton and her campaign chairman John Podesta.
