The social media age ban and the news bargaining code are two of the biggest moves in online regulation that Australia has seen – but neither seem to bother Reddit’s chief operating officer Jen Wong.

Reddit isn’t a news source, Wong says. She seems unconcerned that the pending news bargaining incentive – designed to force platforms such as Meta and Google into deals with news publisher — could be applied to her organisation.

Jen Wong, COO of Reddit

“Most of Reddit is actually original content … [but] we do have links,” she says. “People put links in, but it’s a minority of the content.

“Mostly, what people do on Reddit is commenting on the links, more than reading the links.”

Wong says any news links are provided as source notes, rather than content to be read.

“It’s usually just for a conversation,” she says of these links. “It’s more about commenting about the topic. But most of Reddit is original content, meaning somebody who posted an original question, with........

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