Reddit chief admits to ’playing games’ with user comments

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has come under fire from site users, including his own community team, after publicly admitting to editing comments posted on the platform.
The frank admission saw Huffman acknowledge that he had surreptitiously switched mentions of his name to that of the president-elect ‘for about an hour’ after becoming incensed at being referred to as a paedophile by Donald Trump supporters.
The Reddit co-founder wrote: “Yep. I messed with the “fuck u/spez&rdq