Reddit Groups go silent amid AI-Linked fee dispute: Who gets affected?

The moderators of hundreds of Reddit forums, known as subreddits, closed off access to their groups on Monday to protest the company’s plan to charge for access to the data that outside developers need to run apps on the site. Many said the new pricing scheme could kill off some of the most popular third-party apps that many users rely on to browse and comment on the site. Others said the charges had sowed uncertainty about the tools that moderators use to manage discussions.

What prompted the blackout?

The action has been in the works for weeks after Reddit announced in April that it would start charging third parties for its application programming interface (API)