Reddit releases first transparency report, reveals only 55 requests for user data, 29 January 2015

It’s unclear why Reddit, one of the world’s most popular websites, received so few requests for user data, especially since it hosts message boards (called subreddits) on all kinds of borderline or outright illegal topics, including online drug markets.

Perhaps it’s because Reddit “cleaned up” its most controversial subreddits in the past year, according to James Losey, a fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, who keeps a tally of companies who publish transparency reports.

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