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In unsurprising news, Reddit prepares IPO (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Now the social media platform is aiming for an IPO in the first quarter of 2024 with a valuation of $15 billion, and has been in talks with potential investors like Goldman Sachs and and Morgan Stanley, per Bloomberg.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Nah, they don't need to do that when they can already influence user decisions by faking a consensus.

They "fuzz" votes. They give themselves "gold" and promote articles. Then they have the first few comments all say the same opinion in a few different ways, and suddenly people start agreeing for fear of being "in the out-group". It takes so much effort to flip the tone of the components section once it's got a vibe.

If not, delete and restart until it works.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

As a public company, not disclosing that they manufacuter conversation and opinion with fake data and instead saying it's all natural would be fraud and they would face fines or go to jail if discovered.

Edit: reddit could turn a blind eye to others doing it, but they cant do it themselves and say otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

When was the last time you saw anyone in charge of a 15 billion dollar company go to jail for fraud?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Theranos had a 10b valuation at one point?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Oh, and FTX

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As a public company, not disclosing that they manufacuter conversation and opinion with fake data

You gave it backwards. As a public company, if they can make money doing that but choose not to, they can be sued by the shareholders.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I don't think there's any problems with doing it, as long as they aren't claiming otherwise.

If they lie about it it becomes fraud.

Edit: And what are they going to do once asked on a public earnings call? Lie?

Edit: Falsely posting stuff might also open up a can of worms around the site no longer being protected by being user generated content?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Yea imagine for a small country like slovakia πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡° or some crap a few thousand dollars can go a long long way for a local election or whatever through reddit xitter facebook

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

It's scary how easy it is to just completely control the conversation with a few astroturf comments near yours. Suddenly people reading the astroturf start coming at you with the same talking points because every single individual on reddit is a free thinker.