New Reddit CEO Says He Won’t Reverse Pao’s Moves After Her Exit
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Reddit Inc.’s new chief executive officer said he’s unlikely to reverse some of the changes that caused a user revolt and led to Ellen Pao’s resignation after eight months on the job.
Steve Huffman, a co-founder of the San Francisco-based online forum, said Saturday in an Ask Me Anything on Reddit that Pao was “not used as a scapegoat” and he planned to stick with some of her most unpopular decisions, such as deleting malicious threads including one called “fatpeoplehate” and firing Victoria Taylor, who coordinated the AskMeAnything question-and-answer sessions. Taylor’s firing on July 2 led to online protests the next day.