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Reddit mascot Snoo rings the New York Stock Exchange opening bell, prior to the company's IPO, Thursday, March. 21, 2024. Yuki Iwamura/AP hide caption
Popular online message board site Reddit is filing to sell stock in an initial public offering, the first social media IPO since 2019. Matt Slocum/AP hide caption
Reddit's updates will include access to moderation tools, messaging, and control settings for user approval and bans. The Reddit app icon is pictured on a smartphone. Matt Slocum/AP hide caption
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler testifies before the Senate Banking Committee on Sept. 14 in Washington, D.C. Gensler discussed his approach to the job in a recent interview with NPR. Bill Clark/Pool/Getty Images hide caption
Occupy Wall Street participants march down Fifth Avenue in New York on May 1, 2012. Lingering anger over the 2008 global financial crisis has fueled several populist movements, including most recently, the battle waged by amateur investors coordinating in Reddit against hedge funds. Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
'The Game Is Rigged': How Fury Over The Great Recession Fueled The Reddit Trade
Day traders on the Reddit community r/WallStreetBets, founded by Jaime Rogozinski, drove up the price of GameStop and other stocks, setting up a standoff with Wall Street. Brent Lewin/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Reddit WallStreetBets Founder Calls GameStop Stock Frenzy A 'Symbolic Movement'
Shares of GameStop have surged as amateur investors foil hedge funds' efforts to short sell the stock. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption
Video game retailer GameStop has seen its stock soar, driven higher by a group of amateur day traders on Reddit, who are taking on Wall Street hedge funds. The frenzy has gotten the attention of regulators and lawmakers. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption
Reddit announced on Monday that it has banned the popular subreddit for Trump fans called The_Donald. Reddit previously had taken action against the forum over posting content that violated its rules. Reddit.com hide caption
A Reddit post of a man in a business suit with the CNN logo for a head getting demolished by Trump in a wrestling match, was shared by the president himself on Twitter Sunday morning. HanAssholeSolo/Screenshot by NPR hide caption
New Hampshire state Rep. Robert Fisher (left) attends a public hearing this week. Fisher says reports of alleged comments he made online degrading women were taken out of context. Elise Amendola/AP hide caption
New Hampshire State Lawmaker Accused Of Online Misogyny Faces Expulsion
Yosemite is one of seven national parks defaced by Casey Nocket in 2014, the National Park Service says. David Calvert/Getty Images hide caption
The longer the messaging thread, the higher the chances that Hitler or Nazis get mentioned. curiousgnu.com/Screenshot by NPR hide caption
The Cedid atlas was "the first Muslim-published world atlas based on European geographic knowledge and cartographic methods," the Library of Congress writes. The National Library of Norway just discovered a previously unknown copy in their collection, after a reference librarian posted a scan of it to Reddit. Nikolaj Blegvad/The National Library of Norway hide caption
"In my eight months as reddit's CEO, I've seen the good, the bad and the ugly on reddit," Ellen Pao says, in a statement posted to the site. "The good has been off-the-wall inspiring, and the ugly made me doubt humanity." Robert Galbraith/Reuters/Landov hide caption
The popular reddit question-and-answer section /r/IAmA, along with hundreds of others, has shut down in an apparent protest over the dismissal of a key figure at the social sharing site. Screengrab from reddit.com hide caption
Interim CEO Ellen Pao says Reddit is working on improved tools for the site's moderators. Beck Diefenbach/Reuters /Landov hide caption
Reddit CEO Says Miscommunication Led To Blackout Protest
The popular reddit question-and-answer section /r/IAmA, along with hundreds of others, has shut down in an apparent protest over the dismissal of a key figure at the social sharing site. Screen grab from reddit.com hide caption
A Reddit mascot is shown at the company's headquarters in San Francisco. Reddit has published a new policy aimed at harassment on the site. Robert Galbraith/Reuters/Landov hide caption