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SERIOUSLY?! Reddit CEO Steve Huffman admits to 'editing' (aka CENSORING) Trump supporters

Reddit, a social media site typically known for “free speech,” made headlines this week as its CEO Steve Huffman went into Trump supporter comments and made edits … or really he censored them because let’s be honest, that’s what he did.

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Huffman admitted it.

According to “The Blaze,” Huffman was editing comments with his own username (f**k u/spezo) surrounding #Pizzagate trying to quote, “avoid a witch hunt” on the site. In addition to editing comments, sounds like Huffman took steps to altogether remove the #Pizzagate subreddit.

By Wednesday afternoon, users noticed their comments had been edited, so Huffman released the following statement:

“Hey Everyone,

Yep. I messed with the “f**k u/spez ” comments, replacing “spez” with r/the_donald mods for about an hour. It’s been a long week here trying to unwind the r/pizzagate stuff. As much as we try to maintain a good relationship with you all, it does get old getting called a pedophile constantly. As the CEO, I shouldn’t play such games, and it’s all fixed now. Our community team is pretty pissed at me, so I most assuredly won’t do this again.

F**k u/spez.”

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Other sites keep saying Huffman “changed” posts or he “edited” them but let’s just call it what it was.

Censorship.

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