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Twitch, the live-streaming site owned by Amazon, and Reddit have both taken steps to limit content related to President Donald Trump. Along with recent moves by Facebook and Twitter, the sanctions have amped up recent tensions over the digital spread of Trump messages during the runup to the 2020 presidential…

Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit and husband of Serena Williams, has resigned from the company’s board and is recommending his spot be taken by a black candidate. In addition, Ohanian wrote in a blog post that he would use future gains on his Reddit shares “to serve the black community, chiefly to curb racial…

If any good is to come of the coronavirus outbreak, and just now it is hard to see even a glimmer of good, we might consider this: The media will have a shot at redemption. Japan is closing its schools. Saudi Arabia has put Umrah on hold. Cruise ships are dead in the water. And yes, the international movie box-office…

A rant from a disgruntled mother that insists childless couples should be banned from Disney World – and presumably Disneyland – has been reignited on Twitter, sparking more than 15,000 shares. The original post on Facebook came in 2018, then picked up by Reddit. But it was recently tweeted and revived, as it pits…

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…