Upper Echelon | The Reddit Mafia
Reddit itself, is a long standing internet institution with enormous amounts of data, and influence, but festering beneath the surface are groups of people attempting to seize as much control as possible.
2025-09-01 23:00:00 - Upper Echelon
One particular group (dubbed "The Reddit Mafia") previously held an obscene amount of control through the moderation of thousands of separate communities, infiltrating and destroying their critics for years, until it all came crashing down.
Today we examine the story of Reddits more powerful moderators, and their ultimate failure in a quest for social power.