By John McCarthy

News-reading site Reddit on Saturday purged its forums of the pages responsible for sharing stolen celebrity images, including those of Jennifer Lawrence, in a bid to clean up the social network.

Late on Saturday 6 September, ‘the Fappening’ subreddit page, on which most of the illicit images were shared, was blocked to stem the tide of the offending images; a move which the site likened to “a game of whack-a-mole”.

As one of the only few safe havens for the images, Reddit last week saw traffic of over 250m unique users. However, the site’s creators closed the forum after it found the Read full story ›

Source: The Drum