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Reddit ( / ˈrɛdɪt /) is an American social news aggregation, content rating, and forum social network. Registered users (commonly referred to as "Redditors") submit content to the site such as links, text posts, images, and videos, which are then voted up or down ("upvoted" or "downvoted") by other members. Posts are organized by subject ...
The man behind one of America's biggest 'fake news' websites is a former BBC worker from London whose mother writes many of his stories. Sean Adl-Tabatabai, 35, runs YourNewsWire.com, the source of scores of dubious news stories, including claims that the Queen had threatened to abdicate if the UK voted against Brexit.
Reddit. Steve Huffman (born 1983 or 1984), also known by his Reddit username spez ( / spɛz / ), is an American web developer and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Reddit, a social news and discussion website, which ranks in the top 20 websites in the world. [4] He also co-founded the airfare search engine website Hipmunk, which ...
MediaFetcher.com is a fake news website generator. It has various templates for creating false articles about celebrities of a user's choice. Often users miss the disclaimer at the bottom of the page, before re-sharing. The website has prompted many readers to speculate about the deaths of various celebrities.
Reddit launches Upvoted, a news site that digs out interesting content from reddit, but without enabling commenting. 2015: December 15: Product: Reddit announces that it is shutting down reddit.tv. 2016: April: Product: In April 2016, Reddit launches a new blocking tool in an attempt to curb online harassment.
Comprobado (hosted by Maldita.es). [135] Miniver.org: the first fact-checking web in Spain, launched in 2017, with the purpose of debunking fake news. Accredited by Google as fact-checking organization. [136] Newtral: Spanish fact-checking organization founded by journalist Ana Pastor from LaSexta.
Reddit is a news aggregation and discussion website.Posts are organized into "subreddits", individualized user-created boards moderated by users. In 2008, Reddit introduced its application programming interface (API), granting developers access to the site's corpus of posts and comments.
Reddit, started in June 2005, is a social news website where users can submit articles and comments and vote on these submissions. The submissions are organized into categories called "subreddits". Unlike Digg, with Reddit, users can directly affect an article's score. An "upvote" will increase the score and a "downvote" will decrease it.