Reddit CEO apologizes to revolters

Amelia Havanec • Feb 6, 2018

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Reddit CEO apologizes to revolters</h1>
                <h2><p>More than 200,000 users of Reddit have signed a petition asking for interim company CEO Ellen Pao to step down. The California-based company, they claim, has been operating under controversial decisions ever since Pao became the boss. Last week, Reddit's popular director of talent was let go,</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/amelia-havanec-crosscut-com/">Amelia Havanec</a></p> 
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            <p>More than 200,000 users of Reddit have <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/07/reddit-revolt-ellen-pao-fate?ref=avalancheghost.one">signed a petition</a> asking for interim company CEO Ellen Pao to step down. The California-based company, they claim, has been operating under controversial decisions ever since Pao became the boss. Last week, Reddit's popular director of talent was let go, even though she coordinated the site's successful AMA series in which everybody can ask officials and celebrities all the way up to President Obama "anything."</p><p>Some regulars have suspicions about the firing's timing, shortly after an AMA session with the U.S. civil rights activist Jesse Jackson became particularly heated, with some users attacking Jackson's character. Many Redditors are suggesting that the site's straying toward censorship, which led Pao to issue a public apology yesterday and admit that Reddit "screwed up," not just last week, but "also over the past several years".</p>
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More than 200,000 users of Reddit have signed a petition asking for interim company CEO Ellen Pao to step down. The California-based company, they claim, has been operating under controversial decisions ever since Pao became the boss. Last week, Reddit's popular director of talent was let go, even though she coordinated the site's successful AMA series in which everybody can ask officials and celebrities all the way up to President Obama "anything."

Some regulars have suspicions about the firing's timing, shortly after an AMA session with the U.S. civil rights activist Jesse Jackson became particularly heated, with some users attacking Jackson's character. Many Redditors are suggesting that the site's straying toward censorship, which led Pao to issue a public apology yesterday and admit that Reddit "screwed up," not just last week, but "also over the past several years".

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By Amelia Havanec

Amelia Havanec is Crosscut's Science and Tech Fellow. She came to Washington from her home state of Connecticut by way of New York, Florida, California and Michigan in pursuit of the perfect pint. Sh