Reddit says a bug is letting slurs get added to its links

Image: Reddit A Reddit bug is allowing slurs to get added to Reddit URLs -- and those URLs occasionally appear prominently on Google. Content warning: the following story includes mentions of a slur. Here's what we've observed. While Googling something related to a lighthearted debate in The Verge's Slack, one staffer found that some of the Reddit links that surfaced had a subdomain with unexpected characters and a slur before reddit.com: of the URL]. Despite the additional characters, the link...