Reddit is expanding its moderation tools and building stronger abuse prevention systems that it says could eventually reduce communities’ reliance on karma and account-age requirements, making it ...

Reddit is stepping up its fight against bots, and now your account could be asked to prove it is human if the platform detects fishy behaviour. Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says these checks will be rare, ...

Reddit published an update this week outlining steps to curb spam, bots and inauthentic content—but AI search manipulation may be a harder problem to solve.

The web forum said it would be creating a waitlist for third-party developers to get their hands on an upcoming toolkit. Reading time 2 minutes Reddit, the centralized online forum, has been coasting ...

Old Reddit, the 21-year-old desktop version of the site still preferred by many longtime users and moderators, could become ...

Reddit is looking at potential ways to fight AI bots on the platform, such as ID verification. Credit: Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP via Getty Images Reddit has a real bot problem on its hands. And, in ...

Would-be Reddit competitor Digg just shut down because it couldn’t get a handle on the bots overrunning its site. On Wednesday, Reddit said it’s taking on the challenge itself. The company will begin ...

Reddit, like practically every other social media platform, has been struggling as of late with a deluge of bots and AI-generated content. In a study from last year, roughly 15% of posts on the ...

It started out as a bit of a joke. In June 2018, a user on a now-banned subreddit made a tongue-in-cheek suggestion about creating a bot—an automated account that could call out racists by going ...