Reddit CEO secretly tampered with comments from Donald Trump supporters

In a curious turn of events, today Reddit CEO Steve Huffman admitted to having clandestinely edited a series of Redditor comments that personally targeted and insulted him, using his admin access to replace references to his username with the nicknames of certain moderators from the unofficial Donald Trump subreddit. Huffman acknowledged that he tampered with comments after members of the pro-Trump subreddit ‘The_Donald’ repeatedly called him out, but indicated the only changes he made were to alter the target of the insults. “Yep. I messed with the “fuck u/spez” comments, replacing “spez” with r/the_donald mods for about an hour,” he said. Huffman disclosed…
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