An investigation has revealed that the Kamala Harris presidential campaign is deceptively manipulating the “community notes” feature on Elon Musk’s X platform to censor criticism and spread election disinformation.
The Harris-Walz campaign is reportedly manipulating the social media platform Reddit and breaking the rules in order to control the narrative on the site and make Vice President Kamala Harris appear more popular than she actually is, according to a new investigation by the Federalist.
GameStop shares skyrocketed Monday, fueled by speculation that Keith Gill, the man behind the company’s epic “meme stock” short squeeze in 2021, may have amassed a substantial stake in the video game retailer.
Reddit, the self-proclaimed “front page of the internet,” has officially confirmed a $60 million deal with OpenAI, granting the ChatGPT creator access to its vast trove of notoriously left-wing user-generated content for training purposes.
Reddit, which bills itself as “the front page of the internet” is reportedly selling access to user-generated content to an unnamed AI company for $60 million annually, fueling ethical concerns as the social media platform prepares for its potential $5 billion IPO.
The much-hyped Apple Vision Pro headset has arrived, but some early adopters are disappointed to find it doesn’t support immersive VR porn out of the box. Apple’s firm stance against porn on the device led one disappointed pervert to label the headset “a $3,500 chastity belt.”
A Georgia restaurant has found itself at the center of a viral controversy after a couple complained about being hit with a $50 surcharge at the establishment for their children’s alleged “loud” behavior.
An AI-powered gaming news content mill was recently pranked by Redditors with a fictitious character named “Glorbo” in the popular game World of Warcraft. By excitedly discussing a game character they invented themselves, pranksters tricked an AI system into writing an article about their character.
Amazon delivery drivers are facing an unexpected privacy invasion as surveillance footage from in-van cameras has started appearing online, particularly on Reddit, despite assurances from the company that these cameras were solely for safety purposes.
When Reddit, the self-proclaimed “frontpage of the intenet” faced a wave of protests from users who blocked their content as part of a sitewide blackout, an unintended side effect emerged — the quality of Google search results dropped significantly for users seeking effective answers to questions. Google executives have realized that users are “not quite happy” and are desperately trying to improve their search engine in response.
Moderators on the popular social media site Reddit say they will ban users who refer to “non-binary” character Che Diaz in the Sex and the City spinoff series And Just Like That as a woman — her biological sex.
The U.S. Army’s Protective Services Battalion (PSB), the Department of Defense’s equivalent of the Secret Service, now monitors social media to see if anyone has posted negative comments about the country’s highest-ranking officers.
Moderators from numerous Reddit communities have decided to extend their blackout protest indefinitely, in response to woke CEO Steve Huffman brushing off their concerns and stating in an internal memo that “like all blowups on Reddit, this one will pass as well.”
The self-proclaimed “front page of the internet,” Reddit has seen hundreds of the notoriously left-wing platform’s most popular subreddits go private in response to recent policy changes resulting in the shutdown of multiple third-party apps.
Reddit, the social media platform known for woke politics and leftist censorship, is laying off approximately five percent of its employees and slowing its hiring process according to recent reports.
A social media user claimed he was “kicked off” of a flight after complaining that an obese passenger beside him took up part of his seat.
The creator of the WallStreetBets (WSB) subreddit, Jaime Rogozinski, which sparked the meme stock craze by rallying retail investors to stocks like GameStop, has filed a lawsuit against Reddit alleging breach of contract and trademark infringement.
The search history on the phone of Nicholas John Roske – accused of planning to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh – includes the phrases like “most effective place to stab someone” and “assassin skills,” according to the FBI.
Reddit has banned the word “groomer,” a description of child predators who expose children to sexually explicit material, in what it says is an effort to tackle “hate speech.” The site also banned the claim, which until recently was a matter of mainstream psychology, that being transgender is a mental illness. In protest, some on social media have coined the term “predditor” as a replacement for groomer.
Reddit, the link-sharing and discussion board network known for its influence on online meme culture, has blacklisted one of the first online organizing hubs for pushback against wokeness, the “Tumblr In Action” board, as well as its sister community, “Social Justice in Action.”
Reddit, the self-proclaimed “front page of the internet” known for its rampant censorship, has banned users from posting links to Russian state media outlets like Russia Today and Sputnik.
Hackers are reportedly sending “antiwork” manifestos to receipt printers at businesses worldwide, taking over the common transaction record to spread their political propaganda.
“Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” star Simu Liu is not denying that he wrote a 2015 Reddit post saying pedophilia is “no different than being gay,” and that after doing a “significant amount of research” on pedophilia, he has become “much more sympathetic to anyone who is born with those urges.”
Reddit’s user-led moderator teams are protesting, because they believe the site — which banned the largest online community of Trump supporters ahead of the 2020 election — doesn’t do enough censoring.
Big Tech companies including Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Reddit, Verizon, Airbnb, and Mailchimp will expand a project of collusion on “counterterrorism” efforts that target domestic right-wing organizations.
“Deplatforming works,” boasted former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao, who became notorious among Reddit users for her pro-censorship policies during her brief tenure as head of the company, in a tweet posted this week.
A discussion at the Wikipedia Reddit community yesterday noted that Google searches asking if China owns the disputed South China Sea prominently featured a result from the online encyclopedia parroting the Chinese government position that it “enjoys indisputable sovereignty” over the sea. Reddit users noted the line appeared to be taken from a Chinese Foreign Ministry statement quoted in the article, a fact not included in the Google snippet. The line was removed after the reddit discussion brought it to attention.
Reddit is reportedly blocking links to Rumble, an anti-censorship video hosting platform and competitor to YouTube. Many prominent conservatives maintain a presence on Rumble, including Dan Bongino, PragerU, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), widely touted as a potential 2024 presidential candidate.
Reddit, the self-proclaimed front page of the internet, is being sued by a woman for allegedly allowing an ex-boyfriend to repeatedly post revenge porn of her filmed when she was just 16 years old.
David Chipman, His Fraudulency Joe Biden’s nominee to head the ATF, has spread wild-eyed, Blue Anon conspiracy theories about the 1993 Waco siege.
The self-proclaimed “front page of the internet” Reddit has reportedly fired an administrator identified as UK transgender politician Aimee Challenor after multiple subreddits went dark in protest of Knight’s position at the site due to Challenor’s links to convicted pedophiles. The site’s CEO sheepishly admitted, “We did not adequately vet her background before formally hiring her.”
“No disruption is easy or happens in a straight line. Stay with it. I am a believer,” Mark Cuban told the GameStop army.
Malaysian retail investors rallied on social media to drive up stocks of Malaysian rubber glove manufacturers on Friday, in a move modeled on the GameStop trading surge witnessed in the U.S. this week.
Nigel Farage has hailed the GameStop rebellion as the natural successor to the populist movement which carried Brexit and Donald Trump to victory in 2016.
Shares of GameStop and AMC saw tremendous gains this week as an army of small retailer investors beat back sophisticated hedge funds that had bet against the stocks.
Tech giant Google is actively removing negative reviews of the Robinhood trading app from the Google Play Store after users expressed their anger over the trading platform’s halt on buying certain stocks yesterday, including Gamestop.
Yellen will speak to the president after the trading app Robinhood infuriated users for blocking purchases Thursday of stocks popularized by Reddit such as GameStop.
Both Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) are among lawmakers seemingly calling for congressional action after Robinhood restricted trading for GameStop following a surge spurred by a populist investing movement, but the New York lawmaker rejected Cruz after he agreed with her on social media, telling the senator to “sit this one out” because, she claimed, he almost had her “murdered” three weeks ago — a reference to the January 6 Capitol riot.
“I don’t think that I have anything more for you on it, other than to say separate from the Gamestop issue the Secretary of Treasury is one of the world-renowned experts on markets, on the economy,” White House press secretary Psaki said during the press briefing.
Populist movements against ruling elites have been the big political story of the past five years. But at the very moment when elites appear to be winning political battles again, a new threat to their power emerges — this time aimed at Wall Street rather than Washington.
