The Reddit Files
6/17/2023, 9:28:19 PM
Operators broke into Reddit on February 5,
2023, and took 80 gigabytes (zipped) of data.
Reddit was emailed twice by operators, once
on April 13 and one again on June 16.
There was no attempt to find out what we
took.
This is again another instance of Steve
Huffman undermining his own agenda. He
makes an effort to appear tough, but we are
all aware of what happens to individuals like
him when businesses go public. such as Adam
Neumann of WeWork.
I told them in my first email that I would wait
for their IPO to come along. But this seems
like the perfect opportunity! We are very
confident that Reddit will not pay any money
for their data. But I am very happy to know
that the public will be able to read about all
the statistics they track about their users and
all the interesting confidential data we took.
Did you know they also silently censor users?
Along with artifacts from their GitHub!
In our last email to them, we stated that we
wanted $4.5 million in exchange for the
deletion of the data and our silence. As we
also stated, if we had to make this public,
then we now demand that they also withdraw
their API pricing changes along with our
money or we will leak it.
We expect to leak the data.
Pass on the torch, Spez, you're no longer cut
out for this kind of work.