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November 30, 2016 04:28 pm GMT

Reddit's Trump trolls are freaking out—and they're right

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Trump trolls on Reddit want the site's CEO to quit over his response to a bizarre sex scandal called #Pizzagate. Crazily enough, they might be right.

SEE ALSO: War between Reddit CEO and The_Donald rages on

If you haven't heard, #Pizzagate is the hashtag used by trolls spreading the unhinged, bogus claim that Hillary Clinton was involved in a child sex ring running out of a Washington, D.C. pizza parlor. Several employees of that pizza parlor received death threats as a result. It's exactly the sort of steaming pile of trash that Reddit's uniquely positioned to cultivate—it's just surprising it took so long to get here. Read more...

More about Pizzagate, Social Media, Steve Huffman, Reddit, and Spez

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