Exclusive: Reddit Says It's Cooperating With Russia Investigations. They've Handed Over Zero...
Source: The Daily Beast
Exclusive: Reddit Says It’s Cooperating With Russia Investigations. They’ve Handed Over Zero Documents.
Reddit’s CEO said the ‘front page of the Internet’ is working with Congress to uncover Russian propaganda. But it’s turned over no material to investigators.
BEN COLLINS
SPENCER ACKERMAN
03.07.18 1:19 PM ET
After a long public silence, the Internet giant Reddit has finally acknowledged the presence of Russian propaganda on its platform—and indicated it’s working with the Congressional probes into Russia’s 2016 election interference.
“While I know it’s frustrating that we don’t share everything we know publicly, I want to reiterate that we take these matters very seriously, and we are cooperating with congressional inquiries,” Reddit CEO Steve Huffman wrote to the Reddit community in a blog post on Monday. “We've been taking action for a long time,” Huffman added in a follow-up comment.
But The Daily Beast has learned that the cooperation Reddit is providing is, at most, precursory. Knowledgeable sources tell The Daily Beast that Reddit has not, for instance, produced any documents to the House or Senate committees shedding light on how Russian propaganda hijacked a site that bills itself as the “front page of the internet.”
Rep. Adam Schiff, the senior Democrat on the House intelligence committee, suggested that the panel was still in the preliminary stages of discussions with Reddit about Russian propaganda.
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