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Elon Musk pressured Reddit’s CEO on content moderation(www.theverge.com)

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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.

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Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca
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Typical tiny dick energy.

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Idontopenenvelopes@lemmy.world
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I mean Reddit is a a corporate/military opinion/sentiment farm and a US Mil psyop conduit. Look up DARPA’s Social Media in Strategic Communications project.

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Ledericas@lemm.ee
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its also one for RUssian troll farms too. you can tell when it becomes extremely quiet on all subs, is when putin needs to address internal / or non-us propaganda.

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doingthestuff@lemy.lol
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It’s total BS but it’s not like the previous administration wasn’t doing the same thing to a lesser degree. It’s documented. It’s one of 100 reasons I left Reddit 1 1/2 yrs ago. Propaganda and content manipulation sucks no matter who is pulling the strings. It goes way farther back too.

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pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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It’s total BS but it’s not like the previous administration wasn’t doing the same thing to a lesser degree. It’s documented

What is documented and could you provide a link? I don’t think I’m understanding what you’re saying.

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drhodl@lemmy.world
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I think he’s a “but both sides” er… One of those people who excuses the horror of what’s happening today because “biden”, or someone else he doesn’t like apparently did something 2% as bad, in his opinion, years ago.

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pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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Yep, and also probably a bot. I’ve seen a ton of these kind of bots around lately. The “it’s documented” part is new though. I’m curious how a bot would answer that if they answered at all.

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Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world
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Oh yeah, I remember Bruno, the previous administration’s pet billionaire. That little scamp that was basically shadow president and made sure no one was saying bad things about Nazis like himself. Crazy we had two of those guys in a row.

Don’t you people ever get tired of BoTh sIdEs-ing?

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Ledericas@lemm.ee
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most of the propaganda was by Russia, or did you forget that. even redditors themselves reported it. like half of the comments are fru RU, then US TO lesser degree.

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zymagoras777@lemm.ee
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Paywalled article, don’t click link.

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Guidy@lemmy.world
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And that gutless piece of shit caved to it. I deleted my reddit account a while ago now, and it’s not coming back. Fuck reddit, and fuck Leon.

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Ledericas@lemm.ee
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it was right before they “Accidentally deleted all those subs that offend snowflake conservatives” like narccist help subs, trans subs,etc.

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