Reddit, the social network that bills itself as “the front page of the Internet,” continued a recent growth spurt by raising $300 million in new funding from investors including China’s Tencent. The Series D fundraising round values the company at $3 billion, a Reddit spokesperson confirmed to Deadline. Executives…

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has sued the federal government and Attorney General Jeff Sessions to challenge the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (SESTA-FOSTA), signed  into law by President Donald Trump in April. The lawsuit was filed on Thursday. Woodhull Freedom Foundation et…

More than 200 companies chose Cyber Monday — traditionally the largest online sales days of the year — to call on the Federal Communications Commission to preserve the open internet. Firms including Twitter, Tumblr, Square and Reddit noted that that Americans spent almost $3.5 billion last year in an one-day online…

Sen. Ted Cruz joined the social pile-on attacking CNN over its decision not to identify a Redditor who apologized for his GIF of Donald Trump bashing CNN in the head after hearing from CNN. What has thousands of undies bunched – and #CNNblackmail trending in the U.S. – is the bit in KFile’s Andrew Kaczynski report in…

The Reddit user who apparently created the anti-CNN wrestling meme retweeted by President Donald Trump this morning has a tawdry, racist social media history, including joking about putting a cat in a blender and carrying “punch blades” on trips to Paris to protect himself from Muslim men. The Washington Post is…

UPDATE, 1:48 PM: The White House has weighed in now, calling the cyber attack that has come in waves today and is far more wide-reaching than initially thought “a malicous” attack. The attack seemed to come in two waves, as Internet performance management company Dyn reported that the first one started about 7 AM this…

“I have been very concerned about media bias and the total dishonesty of the press,” said Donald Trump today on Reddit. “I think new media is a great way to get out the truth.” New media had its own issues today as Trump’s Reddit AMA today didn’t quite go as smoothly planned with few responses from the usually social…

GOP nominee Donald Trump will attempt to upstage President Obama and VP Joe Biden on Wednesday announcing a Reddit AMA at 7 PM ET. Wednesday is the day Obama and Biden are scheduled to speak at the already controversy-roiled DNC in Philly. In taking his message to Reddit, Trump’s following in Obama's footsteps, sort…

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Update, Saturday 10:25 AM: In a Reddit AMA this morning, Avatar director James Cameron expounded on the franchise’s timetable in regards to the screenplays, writing, “The second, third and fourth films all go into production simultaneously. They’re essentially all in preproduction now, because we are designing…