Steve Huffman, CEO of Reddit, today admitted to editing several comments that criticised him on the site.
He made the admission on Reddit, where he posts under the username Spez.
Huffman got a lot of flak from members of the The_Donald, a subreddit for supporters of President-elect Donald Trump, after Reddit banned the Pizzagate subreddit. Pizzagate was dedicated to a debunked conspiracy theory linking Hillary Clinton to a paedophile ring.
In response, he edited comments reading "fuck Spez" to instead be directed at moderators of the The_Donald subreddit.
"I
messed with the "fuck u/spez" comments, replacing "spez" with
r/the_donald mods for about an hour. It's been a long week here trying
to unwind the r/pizzagate stuff," he wrote. "As much as we try to
maintain a good relationship with you all, it does get old getting
called a pedophile constantly."
Huffman added: "Our community team is pretty pissed at me, so I most assuredly won't do this again."
The
top comment responding to the CEO's post was, "Surely editing others
comments is a bigger violation of reddit [terms of service] than
whatever pizzagate is accused of doing."
"Every bad comment on
this site is actually a result of /u/spez 's making/manipulation until
he can prove otherwise in each and every individual instance," another
user joked.
Friday, 25 November 2016
Reddit CEO admits to editing user comments amid Pizzagate malarkey
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