Two years after stepping away from his day-to-day duties at Reddit, cofounder Alexis Ohanian is resigning from the company's board and urging that his seat be filled with a black candidate
Reddit, the social networking site he co-founded 15 years ago, gave birth, directly and indirectly, to some of the worst racism, hate and trolling on the internet. Now, two years after stepping away from his day-to-day duties at Reddit, Ohanian, a white man, is resigning from the company's board and asking that he be replaced with a more diverse choice.In a series of tweets Friday, Ohanian urged Reddit to fill his seat with a black candidate.
Read MoreThe board on which Ohanian had been sitting is, counting him, comprised of one woman and four white men.The site, which calls itself the front page of the internet, has long wrestled with addressing hateful and racist content on its platform. Earlier this week, some of Reddit's most popular threads went private in an effort to protest hate speech and racism on the platform, according to Business Insider.
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