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Richard Lawler @ The Verge · 03/13/2026 16:51 EDT

Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam

It's only been a year since Digg founder Kevin Rose, Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian, and a few others announced the link-sharing site would relaunch, promising a "social discovery built by communities, not by algorithms." Now, two months after opening its Reddit-like platform to the public, Digg is announcing a "hard reset" that's shutting down operations […]

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