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17
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2024 to 2026
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2024
2
2025
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2026
7

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Jul 2026Publishers Including Reddit Consider Blocking Google Over AI Search Traffic LossWell documentedIntellectual property and appropriationNew York PostYahoo News (Taiwan)UDN+5Jun 2026DuckDuckGo AI Spreads False Trump Death Story After Reddit Data PoisoningWell documentedReliability and hallucinationFuturismCybernewsAnalytics Insight+3Jun 2026DuckDuckGo AI Search falsely reported Trump and Vance died of rabiesReportedReliability and hallucinationfuturism.commimikama.orgJun 2026Scammers ran AI investment fraud ads on Reddit using deepfakes and cloned news sitesReportedFraud, scams and manipulationmashable.combitdefender.comMay 2026AI-driven spam campaigns manipulate Reddit to influence chatbot outputsReportedMisinformation and synthetic mediaMashableExtremeTechApr 2026Unverified Reddit claim of family Google account ban after minor's Gemini misuseConfirmedSafety and wellbeingLiberty Times Netnewtalk.twMar 2026AI Models Identify 68% of Anonymous Internet Users with 90% AccuracyConfirmedPrivacy and surveillanceNewsBytesFirstpoststoryboard18.com+3Oct 2025Reddit sues Perplexity AI and data scrapers for unauthorized data scrapingAllegedIntellectual property and appropriationThe Times of IndiaFinancial Times NewsReuters+3Oct 2025Reddit AI Recommends Heroin and Kratom for Pain ReliefWell documentedSafety and wellbeingPC Mag Middle EastDigital TrendsWiredJul 2025US Media Sue AI Firms Over Unauthorized Scraping of News ContentWell documentedIntellectual property and appropriationUdnemoney聯合理財網TechNews 科技新報 | 市場和業內人士關心的趨勢、內幕與新聞Nextapple+2Jun 2025Reddit sues Anthropic for unauthorized scraping of user data to train ClaudeAllegedIntellectual property and appropriationReutersYahoo! Financeuol.com.brApr 2025University of Zurich Researchers Conducted Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on RedditConfirmedGovernance, accountability and labourengadgetWinBuzzerbgr.comApr 2025University of Zurich researchers conducted unauthorized AI study on Reddit with undisclosed botsUnder investigationMisinformation and synthetic mediawashingtonpost.comindependenttechresearch.orgMar 2025UK Regulator Investigates TikTok, Reddit, Imgur on Child Data and Content RecommendationsUnder investigationPrivacy and surveillanceEl Vocero de Puerto Ricoesdelatino.comVoz de América+1Feb 2025UK fines Reddit £14.5m for failing to protect children's dataConfirmedPrivacy and surveillanceRTE.ieTRT WorldDec 2024Texas AG launches investigation into Character.AI and other platforms over child safetyUnder investigationSafety and wellbeingNew York PostThe News InternationalmySAOct 2024AI bots bypass social media safeguards on X, Meta and other platformsReportedHarmful and abusive contentMakeUseOfFuturity