"I'm confident that Reddit could sway elections. We wouldn't do it, of course. And I don't know how many times we could get away with it. But, if we really wanted to, I'm sure Reddit could have swayed at least this election, this once."
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Steve Huffman, in "Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet" (archived), Andrew Marantz. The New Yorker (2018-03-12).
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