Plus, Flock moves to calm a backlash over its license-plate scanners and Instagram gets a new wordmark.

On Friday, a judge largely denied a motion to dismiss from a web scraper, SerpApi, which is accused of conspiring with Perplexity AI to illegally scrape copyrighted Reddit content from Google search ...

Reddit is deploying AI bots to help moderate new subreddits. But whether fighting bots with more bots will work remains to be ...

Brands are seeding Reddit with fake, chatbot-friendly posts so that ChatGPT and Gemini repeat their marketing as genuine advice. Reddit says its own AI now catches 25,000 spammy posts a day, the ...

Curiously invoking the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Google sued SerpApi last December. The search giant accused the web scraper of circumventing its anti-scraping technology and then ...

With AI eating the public web, Reddit is going on the offensive against data scraping. With AI eating the public web, Reddit is going on the offensive against data scraping. In the coming weeks, ...

When Reddit significantly changed its user interface way back in 2018, there were widespread protests from those who ...

Old Reddit, the legacy desktop interface preferred by long-time users since the platform's 2018 redesign, faces further changes as Reddit steps up its fight against AI data scraping.The company ...

In the AI era, platforms have no choice but to fight fire with fire to cull spam.