Reddit CEO confirms that Russian propaganda accounts affected the 2016 presidential election
According to foreign neowin reports, following Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and now the United States is also a popular site was also exposed Russia has become the intervention of the 2016 presidential election tool, it is Reddit. CEO Steve Huffman acknowledged on Monday that the company has removed hundreds of accounts suspected of being from Russia or directly linked to interventions.
Huffman said they have found and removed hundreds of accounts, and each one they found is expanding their search. In addition, he added that most of these accounts have been banned in 2015 and 2016 due to the violation of the relevant terms of use. However, Huffman pointed out that Reddit did not appear ads related to these Russian accounts because the advertisements on the website were all subject to human examination. In addition, Reddit’s advertising policies had explicit bans on overly controversial political or cultural views.
Huffman said that the biggest question is whether Reddit users have inadvertently shared deliberate promotional content from Russia. However, he did not give any possible measures on this website. He only expressed the hope that there would be a solution to prohibit such propaganda.
Source: neowin
