Reddit owns up to its part in spreading misinformation about the Boston bombings

A legion of armchair warriors pulled together to provide a detailed account of all the information available on last week's horrific bombings during the Boston Marathon, but not all of that effort turned out to be good.

Reddit ads will now show up by default for Adblock Plus users

Adblock Plus will no longer block advertising on community news site Reddit by default, the Germany-based Adblock developer team announced today.

Reddit lifts its ban on The Atlantic, science sites still blacklisted

Reddit has lifted its ban on popular news publication The Atlantic, thus allowing its users to submit links to the community news sharing site once again.

The news publication  — along with BusinessWeek, Phys.org, GlobalPost, Discovery News, ScienceDaily, and …

Why Reddit is cracking down on your favorite sites

Community news sharing site Reddit is now restricting its users from submitting links from a handful of high-profile web publications, including BusinessWeek, The Atlantic, Phys.org, GlobalPost, and ScienceDaily.

The ban has also caught at least one high-profile Redditor as well.…

Reddit on CISPA: “People just want to know we give a shit”

As one of the more prominent and vocal opponents of anti-piracy legislation SOPA, social news site Reddit has positioned itself as an organization that deeply cares about tech policy. But sometimes that can work against it.

For instance, last weekend …

Tech industry is well represented on Time’s ’100 Most Influential’ list

Leaders in the tech industry account for a sizable chunk of the names in Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people list, which the publication released today.

Each year, the magazine sets up a readers’ poll on its website that contains …

Reddit General Manager Erik Martin leads Time’s “100 Most Influential” poll

It’s hard to deny that community news sharing site Reddit hasn’t had a positive impact on the world. It’s user base is responsible for donating tons of money to good causes. Its employees led the crusade against the intrusive SOPA/PIPA …

Reddit grabs a record 1.9B page views in October — Holy eyeballs Batman

It seems all the people who keep Reddit open in a permanent tab on their web browser (myself included) are really starting to add up for the community news sharing site.

Reddit brought in more than 1.9 billion page views …

Hey local businesses, Reddit is giving out free ads

In terms of active online communities, Reddit takes the cake. So, the announcement that the site is giving local businesses free advertising spots is a big deal.

The news sharing site, which gets over a billion page views per month, …

Reddit begins holiday shopping season early, acquires Redditgifts.com

News sharing social network Reddit has acquired Redditgifts.com, a popular independent gift exchange site created by Reddit community members, the company announced Tuesday.

Redditgifts is best known for organizing the world’s largest Secret Santa gift exchange and the mid-summer arbitrary …

Reddit turns its attention to collegiate communities

While news-sharing site Reddit harbors many unique communities such as rage comic lovers, zombie aficionados, geeks and several others, its low on robust college communities — which is strange considering that a large percentage of Reddit’s total users are either …

Reddit experiences mighty growth: 1.2B page views per month

The last five months have been very good for community news sharing site Reddit, which reported huge traffic growth on its official blog today.

From January to May 2011, the site has seen a 37 percent increase in unique visitors …