- Reddit’s CEO has been talking about verification.
- Face ID or Touch ID could be used to prove you’re human
- Nothing has been decided or implemented on Reddit yet
Reddit has a serious bot problem, and CEO Steve Huffman has been talking about ways it could prove that posts are made by humans, including possibly requiring Face ID and Touch ID verification.
Huffman made the comments in an interview with TBPN (via Engadget), while discussing the idea of making Reddit more valuable to its users and opening up the platform to people who haven’t used it before.
“The lightest way [to verify a user is human] is with something like Face ID,” Huffman said, before mentioning more “heavy” options, such as identity verification services and other alternatives in between.
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Reddit is looking at passcode technology in general, Huffman said: “They actually require a human presence. A human has to touch, do, or look at something. That really just proves that there’s a person there, or it takes you pretty far.”
‘We want to know that you are a person’
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman says that while there are legitimate types of AI content on the platform, the company is considering Face ID and other password verification methods, among other options, to ensure there is a human behind every message while still allowing users to remain anonymous: pic.twitter.com/Erv2jfj9QuMarch 20, 2026
Huffman also said that the Internet as a whole needs better third-party tools to verify that someone is a human being, without requiring any type of identification and without affecting the privacy and security of users.
Reddit isn’t the only online platform struggling with an influx of automated bots, especially with the rise of generative AI to power them. We are reaching the stage where bot traffic is overtaking human traffic on the web.
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“Part of our promise to our users is that we don’t know your name, but we do want to know that you are a person,” Huffman said. “It will be an evolution for us for a while and probably for all platforms we will find the right middle ground here.”
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