Digg cuts jobs after facing AI bot surge
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CEO Justin Mezzell said in a blog post on Friday that the company is downsizing its team to a small core group after failing to find product-market fit against established social media platforms.
The company grappled with an "unprecedented" influx of sophisticated AI agents and automated accounts that undermined the platform's voting and engagement systems.
"When you can't trust that the votes, the comments, and the engagement you're seeing are real, you've lost the foundation a community platform is built on," Mezzell said in a statement.
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