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RDDT INVESTOR NEWS: Reddit, Inc. is being Investigated for Securities Fraud
(www.globenewswire.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2025
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For the folks who want to know the cause of the investigation without needing to click through to the article:
Reddit made it unmistakably clear that they don't want traffic from people using their API and that they don't want google or anyone else to scrape "their" content, which I'm pretty sure will have significant impact on SEO. They also have made sure to please potential shareholders by banning a ton of users and communities before their IPO.
As a result, the quality and quantity of discussion on the platform has lowered, some people even tried to mass delete their posts and comments which makes some threads to appear like ghost towns, which has also revealed the insane amount of inorganic communication (bots and the like).
So how exactly did google kill their userbase?
Whenever I do searches now, through ecosia, any Reddit results come up with “we’d like to show you a preview of this content but can’t”.
Im not entirely sure why it happens (it’s not always on a pc with a VPN, so that’s not it), though I assume it’s to do with the API crackdown. It has been highly effective at keeping me the hell off Reddit for literally anything for the past several months.