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francois.barbier [soylentnews.org] writes:

According to /u/Spez [reddit.com], Reddit CEO, the reports of messages edited without any user consent or knowledge [reddit.com] are correct as he admits to have done it so himself:

Hey Everyone,

Yep. I messed with the “fuck u/spez” comments, replacing "spez" with r/the_donald mods for about an hour. It’s been a long week here trying to unwind the r/pizzagate stuff. As much as we try to maintain a good relationship with you all, it does get old getting called a pedophile constantly. As the CEO, I shouldn’t play such games, and it’s all fixed now. Our community team is pretty pissed at me, so I most assuredly won’t do this again.

Fuck u/spez.

The edits were made in a thread linked from the Washington Post [washingtonpost.com] which described the recent ban of the /r/pizzagate [reddit.com] subreddit which tried to uncover child-molesters and recently moved to voat.co [www.voat.co].

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