SMRTR TechMar 15, 20269to5Mac

Digg shuts down two months after highly anticipated return

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Digg relaunched in January after being acquired by original founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, promising to combat inauthentic behavior with AI verification systems. However, sophisticated bots and automated accounts overwhelmed the platform within hours, forcing CEO Justin Mezzell to shut down the site just two months later after banning tens of thousands of fake accounts proved insufficient.

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