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Facebook has been under fire for sometime over its ‘real name’ policy but what happens if you create a completely fake person and let strangers on the internet decide who they are? That’s what Joe Veix decided to do. The writer and inveterate Web experimenter – I previously wrote about his Chrome extension which obliterates…
More Americans get news on Twitter and Facebook than in the past, according to a new report by Pew Research Center in association with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The survey of 2,035 U.S. adults sheds light on Americans’ evolving news and information habits on the two platforms. Here are five key…
Photo Alexis Ohanian, a co-founder of Reddit.Credit Noam Galai/Getty Images for Techcrunch Over the last week, the circumstances surrounding the dismissal of a Reddit employee, a move that led to a huge user uprising and the resignation of the site’s interim chief executive, have been murky at best. Now those details are starting to emerge….
Yesterday, Ellen Pao stepped down as CEO of Reddit. Co-founder Steve Huffman will take her place. Pao’s resignation came after a week of heightened tension at the company and on the site, but her tenure had been fraught with controversy and backlash from the sites users since it began. May 2012 – Pao files lawsuit…
Victoria Taylor is not someone who many people will have heard about prior to Thursday 2 July, yet she has worked closely with everyone from Barack Obama and Bill Murray to Snoop Dogg, along with hundreds of others, as part of her job at the so-called “front page of the internet” Reddit. In the space…
Internet communities like Reddit have always been toxic environments that survive on the backs of unpaid labor, and attempts to corporatize them fail because of it. Some of the worst trolls on the Internet are celebrating victory, as embattled interim CEO of Reddit Ellen Pao stepped down yesterday after what can charitably be described as…
Earlier today, I took my children to my great-grandparents’ grave in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto. They don’t have a big headstone, or a nice spot. But they have a big place in my heart: He came to Canada from Barbados, she from Jamaica, and he built two(!) houses for their extended family. They sent their…
After a week of revolt and months of protesting, Ellen Pao stepped down as CEO of one of the largest digital communities in the world. Reddit users, of course, were thrilled to find that Pao (aka user/ekjp) was leaving, and celebrated the return of long-time redditor (and sometimes critic of the company) Steve Huffman, aka user/spez, as…
Reddit has a problem. It’s a well-documented problem, which, oddly, is a big part of the problem. Every six months or so, from the depths of the sprawling site’s underbelly, a network of disparate communities which seem to feed off of bigotry and perversion rise into the greater public’s consciousness. For many people, this is…
Interim CEO Ellen Pao is out at Reddit, and while the departure has reportedly been characterized as amicable, the weeks leading up to this moment have been anything but that. Pao has been the subject of vitriol from an angry coalition of Reddit users who have relentlessly mocked and denigrated her, often using sexist, viscious…