Reddit CEO Ellen Pao resigns

Reddit interim CEO Ellen Pao resigned from the company in the wake of an insurrection last week in which moderators shut down many of the website's most popular sections following the still-unexplained dismissal of a popular figure who helped set up celebrity interviews on the site.

Steve Huffman, founder and original Reddit CEO, returned to the helm, according to NPR.

"In my eight months as Reddit's CEO, I've seen the good, the bad and the ugly on Reddit," Pao said in a posting on the site. "The good has been off-the-wall inspiring, and the ugly made me doubt humanity."

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