Elon Musk Pressured Reddit CEO During Moderator Revolt Over Nazi-Style Salute: Report

Moderators at more than 100 Reddit communities banned links to X after Elon Musk’s infamous Nazi-style salutes back in January, a rather understandable reaction to seeing public displays of violent fascist ideology. The billionaire oligarch very publicly complained about Reddit in the middle of the controversy, but we now learn that Musk wasn’t just whining on X. The Tesla CEO was also privately pressuring the CEO of Reddit to help him out by apparently silencing critics of the Trump regime, according to a new report from The Verge. Musk was exchanging text messages with Reddit CEO Steve Huffman before the platform banned r/WhitePeopleofTwitter for 72 hours, according to The Verge which cites “people familiar with the matter.” The subreddit was ostensibly banned over violent threats against members of DOGE, the entity that’s currently dismantling the U.S. government. News of DOGE’s theft of sensitive personal information led to an outcry on r/WhitePeopleofTwitter, some of which includ ... Read full article.