As CEO, Huffman has courted controversy with many of these moves, both within and beyond the freewheeling platform.
Huffman has occupied the hot seat during every Reddit flashpoint since: the early-Trump-era bans of r/pizzagate and r/altright, both hotbeds of extremism and conspiracy theories the 2019 investment from Chinese company Tencent, which Redditors feared would interfere with the site’s free-speech ethos the anti–hate speech policies that the company implemented during the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests the subsequent booting of notorious spaces like r/The_Donald and Reddit’s supposed “censorship” of market-breaking r/WallStreetBets traders in 2021. The whole reason the co-founder is currently in charge of the internet’s most important message-board hub is that he was asked to come back in July 2015, in order to quash a racist, sexist Redditor backlash that had contributed to the resignation of then-CEO Ellen Pao. Steve Huffman has tussled publicly with Reddit’s users before, and he wants everyone to know it.
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