The user behind the amateur sleuth page followed 'round the world is now admitting, in an interview with The Atlantic Wire, that his communal photo hunt was "doomed from the start" but that Reddit's community is seeking answers — not about the ongoing investigation so much as about what went right... and what went so very wrong.
One of the most interesting details from the Washington Post's steller tick-tock of the F.B.I. investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings has to be the reason they decided to release the photos of Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev: to fend off Reddit and the New York Post.
If you thought the New York Post's "Bag Men" outing was bad, the most crowdsourced terror investigation in American history transformed from Internet sleuthing of FBI photos on Thursday night into a lynch mob — from Reddit to a police scanner to social media and beyond — that led to the outing of even more innocent people as would-be suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing.
Adria Richards has publicly commented on her firing for the first time. And, well, she sounds pretty upbeat about where that conversation is headed next, considering she just lost her job after an onslaught of Internet harassment.
A representative for Grey Group denies trying to fool Reddit with a heart-warming story on behalf of Olive Garden. Chief communications officer Owen Dougherty told The Atlantic Wire. "It would be against our social code of conduct."
The people of Reddit aren't taking kindly to a straightforward new plea from the site's co-founder, Alexis Ohanian, questioning whether acts of sexism on the site have served to "belittle and ostracize" its female audience.
Existentialism, the Syrian Crisis, and volatility of the stock market—that's what the site's debut web series is tackling and, at the same time, is proving that the people behind a site that revels in memes like Socially Awkward Penguin and Actual Advice Mallard, are actually pretty smart and entertaining when they want to be.
Here's a not-so-happy fact: "The 30 Happiest Facts of All Time," the biggest hit of the week on BuzzFeed, which has been caught before lifting its highly shareable feel-good listicles from Reddit, was mostly plagiarized from a month-old Reddit thread "Reddit, what is the happiest fact you know?"
Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich did a Reddit AMA Monday morning, and it shouldn't surprise any of the band's fans to hear that the answers given range from weird to... weirder.
Reddit's Ask Me Anything feature is often fun because it enables regular old Redditors to talk to really cool famous people like the president or, as was the on Sunday, an astronaut orbiting the Earth.
A lot of it had to with a photo almost certainly intended to excite the nerds.
With the Super Bowl just days away and the so-called Bountygate scandal still bubbling over, New Orleans Saints fans were really excited for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell's AMA on Reddit this afternoon. He wasn't as excited to answer their questions.
Somewhere in the midst of a long thread about his future at The New York Times, baseball, Chuck Hagel, gun control, and more, Silver let out that, sure, he might have changed his tone "n terms of pushing back at the pundits."
Snoop Dogg — er, Snoop Lion is what he goes by now — stopped by Reddit to do an Ask Me Anything sessions this afternoon, and, if his answers are any indication, he was really, really high while doing it. Let's take a look.
After stepping away from Reddit once he was unmasked by Gawker's Adrian Chen and CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, Internet creep Michael Brutsch (aka Violentacrez), the man behind the creepshots and jailbait sections of the site, is back to defending himself.
California Rep. Zoe Lofgren reached out to Redditors for ideas on new Internet legislation. The gesture was surely well intentioned, but as one of our commenters noted, the idea of Reddit writing our laws is a bit terrifying.
Just when you thought Reddit couldn't become more powerful, Rep. Zoe Lofgren has enlisted the power of the crowd to help her write a new Internet law. It's right up Reddit's alley, too.
Barack Obama did a Reddit Ask Me Anything back in August not just as a gimmick to prove he was "with it," but because that's where his voter base was, an anonymous "official" from Obama's analytics team told Time's Michael Scherer.
Looking at company incorporation papers, Forbes's George Anders estimates that the front page of the Internet, and all its seedy glory, is worth at least $240 million dollars.
While Reddit is mostly getting press for its seedier side, AMAs are still a place for the President of the United States and international pop stars and meme sensations like South Korean rapper PSY to tell us about themselves.
After the last two weeks of Internet outrage, the creeps on Reddit are still posting inappropriate photos, including ones of minors, and the Reddit powers that be would like to take it from here.
Glitches in Amazon's hosting service took down websites like Reddit, Imgur, GitHub, and a bunch of others today, much to the chagrin of homebodies everywhere. But one commenter took the blackout as a blessing, noting Mother Nature's splendor today.
Earlier today a bunch of sites, including the front page of the Internet itself, weren't working because Amazon's Elastic Cloud Compute service, or EC2, which hosts many websites sites, was down.
Michael Brutsch, a 49-year-old man who posted on Reddit under the name Violentacrez until Gawker's Adrian Chen outed him, went on Anderson Cooper 360 to defend himself on camera for the first time.
Reddit leadership has clarified the official rules when it comes to creep-on-Reddit, standing up for free speech on the site, said CEO Yishan Wong in a leaked memo via Gawker's Adrian Chen.
Just when Reddit looked like it had gained some ground in its war on creeps, with the admin ban of the subreddit Creepshots and its creepily-named moderator, the creeps have found a new place to roost.
To the outside world last week's creeps-on-Reddit takedown kerfuffle looked like a defense of pornography while the Reddit community framed it as a defense of freedom of speech. However, a recent leaked chat between Redditors and and the site's actual employees suggest that what they fear most is being Reddited themselves.
After getting the entire Gawker network banned from nearly 70 subreddit sections, Gawker's Adrian Chen has followed through with what got him kicked off in the first place—unmasking a Reddit user he called the "biggest troll on the Web," known as Violentacrez, in a lengthy post on Gawker.com.
Reddits creeps are losing their Internet war, with the site banning the subreddit r/CreepSquad, which was already a replacement for the recently blocked r/CreepShots, both places for men to upload photos of unsuspecting women.
In her post on Reddit's decision to ban Gawker in defense of child porn, Rebecca Greenfield quoted a Redditor with a graphic username. "What a world," says one of our commenters.
One would think the side to take in the Gawker-versus-child-pornography-on-Reddit war would be an easy choice, but Gawker writer Adrien Chen's ban from the site has led to an Internet divide over the matter.
Reddit has blocked Gawker from several of its threads in order to protect "a prominent member of Reddit's community, Violentacrez," who started the /r/picsofdeadchildren and /r/jailbait sections.
The Horace Mann School for the Deaf garnered thousands of Internet votes to win an online contest promising a Taylor Swift concert on campus—thousands of votes which were thrown out because the contest's sponsors didn't like that 4chan and Reddit were involved.
In his Reddit AMA yesterday, the New York Times' Nicholas Kristof wowed with his answer to the question: "Would you rather fight one horse-sized duck, or 100 duck-sized horses?" The thought-provoking question is a bit of an inside joke on Reddit. But where did it come from?
Do you feel like DVDs of theatrical releases are coming out earlier and earlier? You're not crazy. Wait time has decreased by nearly half, according to this chart by Reddit user steve599.
Now that President Obama has stepped up and participated in a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" Q&A, Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian has extended an offer to Mitt Romney to face Redditors as well. Ohanian told The Atlantic Wire that he wants Reddit to become an "expected campaign stop."
Proving that no online vote is safe, Reddit along with 4chan (and a bevy of Internet trolls) users are derping a contest and have concentrated their efforts into sending country princess Taylor Swift to perform at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf. Trust them, they've done this before.
President Barack Obama, who has experimented in the past with open forum public question sessions with varied success, is doing an AMA on Reddit, starting right now.
The Internet culture-friendly engineers and scientists at the Mars Curiosity Rover Mission took to Reddit today to do an AMA, or "ask me anything." Here are five things we learned.
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Last week we told you about the Reddit's internal discussion about its not-so-welcoming attitude towards women who use the site. We called up Reddit general manager Erik Martin to find out what — if anything — can be done about the hostility many said they encountered.
While Reddit has proved itself as a great source of viral news and received deserved praise for its coverage of the Aurora shootings, a recent thread posited a question about where women fit in in the site.
The State Department's latest counterterrorism effort is apparently an Internet trolling (no, we're not kidding) initiative called Viral Peace. From whom should the government learn to troll?
Newark Mayor Cory Booker opened his internet doors to Reddit users in an "Ask Me Anything" session on Sunday. He explained, among other things, what went through his mind when he ran into that burning building.
The internet fiends at Reddit are requesting that Newark Mayor Cory Booker participate in an "Ask Me Anything" session with them, and the request's ascent to the Reddit front page shows the large national profile the mayor has.
Thanks to a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" with a McDonald's employee, we now know how to get our Big Macs cheaper, which McDonald's to go to if we were to get inebriated and wanted to evade the law, and all about the secret hierarchy of the "Top 500."
The Internet has a new line of defense against laws like SOPA and PIPA that threaten the web's free-flow of information: The Internet Defense League.
There's this thing happening online. Communities of men are springing up and communicating their likes and dislikes, their favorite brands of organic shave gel and vintage leather tote bags, the way a certain pair of pants manages to look both dashing and casual, instructions on how to wear one's best collar.
After hearing all that talk about Pinterest as the social network for ladies, we wondered what kind of stuff men did on the Internet, especially since we found out there's a whole male sharing culture happening on here.
Alexis Ohanian, the dude who co-founded Reddit, helped launch Hipmunk, advocates for free culture, opposes SOPA and serves as an all-around start-up sage, reads a lot of Reddit.
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