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Is Reddit safe? A complete safety guide for 2025
Reddit is one of the largest online platforms in the world, where millions of users come together daily to share stories, ask questions, post updates, and exchange opinions on virtually every topic imaginable. In general, Reddit is a legitimate site with strong rules, and it’s supported by a large and active user base that helps report and remove harmful or misleading…
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Reddit will help advertisers turn ‘positive’ posts into ads
Reddit is launching a new feature for advertisers that slots positive posts from Reddit users right under their ads. The new alpha feature, called Conversation Summary Add-ons, “dynamically integrates positive content from Reddit users directly below an advertiser’s creative, putting community conversations front-and-center in the user experience and blending AI-driven efficiency with real human perspectives,” according to a post from…
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Reddit was down — live updates on the short outage
Refresh 2025-04-29T16:24:43.101Z Working for me For what it’s worth, Reddit.com is loading for me (U.S. Editor-in-Chief Mike Prospero confirmed it’s working for him as well). Obviously, this is anecdotal evidence, and it’s not indicative of what everyone on the internet is experiencing. In fact, almost 5,000 people are hitting Down Detector to contradict our experience. 2025-04-29T16:22:05.295Z Reddit says everything is…
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A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content
Reddit’s automatic moderation tool is flagging the word “Luigi” as potentially violent — even when the content isn’t. But Reddit does appear to be flagging comments that mention “Luigi” in some cases, even those unrelated to Mangione — just not in the way that it first appeared to be. The Reddit spokesperson said that because r/popculture had recently fallen down…
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Reddit will tell you if your post breaks the rules before you publish it
Reddit is introducing some new features for posts that should make it easier to know if your post meets a subreddit’s rules and if it’s for the appropriate community, according to a blog post. The new Rules Check will flag a potential issue as you’re writing the post. As shown in a GIF of the mobile app, you’ll see a…
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Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content
Reddit will now issue warnings to users who “upvote several pieces of content banned for violating our policies” within “a certain timeframe,” starting first with violent content, the company announced on Wednesday. “This will have no impact on the vast majority of users as most already downvote or report abusive content,” a Reddit employee says in the announcement post. In…
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Reddit has recovered from another outage
Following some apparent outages on Thursday, Reddit dealt with more issues Friday evening that lasted for around two hours. Initially, when I logged in on my desktop browser during Friday’s outage, Reddit wouldn’t load at all — I would just run into error pages. In an incognito window, the site loaded, though it seemed to load slower than usual. I…
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Reddit is reportedly experiencing some outages
Reddit is experiencing “international outages,” NetBlocks, a global internet monitor, said in a post Thursday evening. The organization notes that the incident is “not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering. There’s also been a big spike of reports on Downdetector, with the site showing a peak of more than around 47,000 reports as of this writing. I’ve seen many…
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Reddit vs. Wall Street: the latest in the GameStop saga
It hasn’t been a good day for WallStreetBets, as GameStop’s stock has plummeted today. AMC, the community’s other bet, dropped as well. But unlike previous dips, the stocks don’t appear to be rallying. Prices stayed low for the entire trading day, something that hasn’t happened since WallStreetBets became a household name one week ago. When the market closed today, the…
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Hundreds of fake Reddit sites push Lumma Stealer malware
Hackers are distributing close to 1,000 web pages mimicking Reddit and the WeTransfer file sharing service that lead to downloading the Lumma Stealer malware. On the fake pages, the threat actor is abusing the Reddit brand by showing a fake discussion thread on a specific topic. The thread creator asks for help to download a specific tool, another user offers to help…
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