Reddit Revolts, MrBeast’s YouTube Empire and Peak Trust and Safety?

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Moderators on Reddit have closed their forums in protest of a new policy that charges users to access the site’s API. The uprising has Kevin in childcare-wisdom-withdrawal (RIP r/daddit) – and left many other users without their favorite subreddits. But does the incident say anything more about the future of the internet?

Then the MrBeast Philanthropic-Industrial Complex.

Plus: platforms are already messing around with disinformation.

Credits

“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Rose and Casey Newton and produced by Davis Land and Rachel Cohn. The show is edited by Jen Poyant. Engineering by Alyssa Moxley and original music by Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop, Marion Lozano, Sophia Lanman and Rowan Niemisto. Fact Check by Caitlin Love.

Special thanks to Paula Szuchman, Pui-Wing Tam, Nell Gallogly, Kate LoPresti and Jeffrey Miranda.