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Musk's public tirade about Reddit also included private correspondence with Reddit to influence content decisions.
Elon Musk directly messaged Reddit CEO Steve Huffman after posts on r/WhitePeopleTwitter threatened employees of DOGE. The subreddit was banned for 72-hours almost immediately after, and the ...
The Verge reported that “shortly after” Musk and Huffman talked, Reddit enacted its 72-hour ban on the r/WhitePeopleTwitter subreddit, saying it was “due to a prevalence of violent content.” ...
The move reportedly resulted in Reddit taking down a specific thread hosted on the r/WhitePeopleTwitter subreddit and issuing a 72-hour ban on the community for what the company cited as a ...
World’s richest man’s alleged private plea came after a slew of attacks against his government slashing force and X links being banned on subreddits over his infamous salute ...
After exchanging messages, Reddit enacted a three-day ban on the “WhitePeopleTwitter,” which hosted a thread apparently threatening DOGE employees, who were involved in dismantling departments ...
And we ended up winning Pennsylvania, like, in a landslide." One Reddit user posted a screenshot (archived) of an X post that read: "Trump on Elon Musk: 'He knows those computers better than anybody.
As it turns out, Musk wasn’t 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.