"Ohanian stepped down from Reddit's board of directors in June 2020 following the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis. At the time, he wrote on Reddit that it was a "long overdue" move to "do the right thing." He urged the Reddit board to fill his seat with a black candidate, after the company had been criticized for providing a platform for racist and hate speech."
"Digg is a Reddit-like forum page founded in 2004 by entrepreneurs Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson. In 2008, Google floated a deal to buy the platform for $180 million, which did not come to fruition. Venture capital fund Betaworks bought it in 2012 for $500,000. But last year, TechCrunch reported that Rose had reacquired the platform, joined by Ohanian. Ohanian said on his AMA that Digg will be a community-first platform, with a transparent algorithm "based on what you actually follow.""
Alexis Ohanian said he does not miss being in leadership at Reddit. He stepped down from Reddit's board in June 2020 after the killing of George Floyd and urged the board to appoint a Black candidate. He left partly to pressure the company to ban racist and hate communities. Ohanian is partnering with Kevin Rose to relaunch Digg as a community-first forum. Digg was founded in 2004, saw a proposed Google deal in 2008, was sold to Betaworks in 2012, and was reacquired by Rose with Ohanian joining last year. Ohanian promises a transparent algorithm and no AI-driven ranking or personalization.
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