A key notion of the social web — that user-generated content is free to access, but not necessarily free to take — may be going head-to-head with a mammoth legal test. Earlier this week, Reddit filed ...

Reddit has sued Perplexity and data scrapers, accusing them of illegally stealing its data. In the lawsuit, Reddit detailed a trap that it says Perplexity fell straight into. It was the digital ...

In a lawsuit filed on Wednesday, Reddit accused an AI search engine, Perplexity, of conspiring with several companies to illegally scrape Reddit content from Google search results, allegedly dodging ...

“According to the complaint, Perplexity has admitted that Reddit is one of its ‘top tier sources’ for data, citing an August 2025 Perplexity blog post that said ‘Reddit has emerged as the most cited ...