. ♪ scarlet: magazine publisher bought reddit.ter countless incidents of questionable credit behavior, the parent company would prefer you not think of reddit as theirs. the massiveite growth of 164 million users. why is the company so unmanageable? is being discussed in an article titled "reddit, a nine-year case study." joining me now is the author of the article. that subtitle gives it away. basically, they said we will not do what every other big company does. we will not meddle with it. we will worry -- we will let you willtake care of it and we let the community manages self they took a hands-off approach. in one sense, that worked. but now we're seeing the downside of that and the limits of benign neglect as a management strategy. there was a business model. >> yes. on whole site is based anonymous users. there is essentially no targeted information. data oncts basically no the users, which makes it completely out of step with the entire online advertising market. not surprisingly, it has not made much money and is not popu

to reddit.g to be at reddit, she is going to use the internet to connect to reddit. >> the ama. >> online. >> the next question has to be who is next, rhonda? >> who could be next? >> is there anyone? >> kari, i don't think you are lining up for that one, either? >> absolutely not. do you know what, i will just day in the weather department. here we go, 79 degrees today in san jose, palo alto 81 and in san francisco 69 degrees, today still some low clouds hanging around, a lot of sunshine in the tri-valley, topping out in the upper 80s. >> anthony how are things looking on the roads? >> earlier we had that accident at 101 southbound on tully, things have been reopened now. northbound lanes a little slowing but that's typical. seeing that slowing moving through santa clara, also oakland things moving slow. the bay bridge, metering lights are on. >> that's what's happening "today in the bay." we will be back with you w]tc live local news updates at 7:25. >> join us for nbc bay area news at 11:00.

in the past year alone, cofounders of twitter, reddit, and zynga have returned to run the companies theyped create, and today, we can add tinder founder sean rad to that list. in a press release, a board member and benchmark partner said it's only been a few months, but there was mutual agreement that it was not the right long-term fit, and given tinder's rapid growth trajectory, rapid action seems best for everyone. we are hearing that this was not related to the tweet storm and the whole "vanity fair" incident. it's a little difficult to believe, but ok. why are they doing this? >> that's right. the company saying it's not related to what we were talking about yesterday, but they say they are bringing sean in to help accelerate after chris was not really a great fit. tinder is in a position where they are trying to monetize. they introduced a premium package users can pay for in february, and they are trying to build out this product -- they introduced -- they are in a position where they are trying to monetize. they introduced a premium package users can pay for. when you think about

these discoveries were talked about around the world, like here online at reddit... even on msnbc which compared my discovery to the hairstyle of a new york city celebrity. back in tambopata, it was time to check in on the spiders and more. first up, the decoy spider. after searching the forest at night, we came upon one just meters away from the research center, and were able to document it - for the first time - in the act of actually building the fake spider and catching prey. consider this a success in my book. but not all of field work is guaranteed success, sometimes the forest has its own plan. a moonlit boat ride to a nearby island to take a crack at solving another amazon mystery. last year i lead an expidition to this island to solve the mystery of "silkhenge". and despite a few hours' search - an area in which i'd previously found many turned up completely empty. frustrating, but all part of the process. but not all was lost on this island visit, i encountered one of the few species out there that even scares me - and had to document it for a colleague's r

reddit said we are banning revenge porn from our site.e internet can be a scary place, but we are all a part of shaping it and that's the naked truth. i'm laurie segall, for cnn money. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> a rising death toll in tianjin, china. we have the latest in a live report. >>> and donald trump thinks hillary clinton is in trouble over her email handling as the issue raises its head in a key state. >>> and brazilians will take to the streets. >>> welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, you are watching cnn "newsroom" live from cnn in atlanta. i'm natalie

instagram and reddit give 17 weeks to new mom and dads. it may be what's necessary to keep and retain talent in the youth-dominated digital word. carol sladek say benefits consultant with 29 years in human resources. do the generation of people having babies now, new mothers and fathers have, different expectations than their parents did for parental leave? >> i think you hit on something. they think there are some generational differences. i think, certainly, we all have heard a lot about millennials and how they're approaching the workforce differently. >> reporter: the u.s. is the only western developed country not requiring companies to offer paid maternity leave joining countries like papua, new guinea. , micronesia, and tonga. >> i personally think that's a travesty. i think the u.s. could do so much more in valuing motherhood. >> reporter: morgan baden had her daughter, matilde anine months ago. she's a vp at the publisher scholastic which provides four months off at full pay, then two more months of working part time, but still get

and there are reddit threads advising how to sneak in and sneak in booze. you need a wristband like this. it must be activated and act like a debit card. john cobbs paid hundreds of dollars for his. >> if you want to risk going to jail for it, my hat tips to them. >> reporter: sfpd says it has given out at least 31 citations for public drunkenness and trespassing. it did credit the high-tech wristbands for cutting down on counterfeits which you may remember was a big problem last year. in san francisco, betty yu, kpix5. >> this is the first friday of the month. that means the streets of uptown oakland turn into one big party. but christin ayers shows us the party may soon be over. >> reporter: on the surface, it's thriving. first friday is the biggest street party in oakland. a beloved and eclectic mix of food, music, art, and dance. >> it shows the best part of oakland. >> everybody comes together. everybody from different countries, different languages, different colors. >> reporter: but behind the scenes, the nonprofit that runs it is struggling. rocked

he'd been following their web sites on reddit. don't know what reddit is but -- >> that's what children are for. >> they tell me it's important so i accept it. this was serious. he was deeply interested in fascism and the triumph and possible triumph of fascism based on race war. that's part of why he did what he did. so it's to reduce our collective intelligence because ideas which have long serious histories get to reduced to comic book characters and this is n isn't a left or right question. anyone -- i'll stop with this. when people were marching in new york about police brutality, i went out the ask them let's talk about this, do you know how many people in new york were killed by policemen now as opposed to 1990? well, it's about one-sixth now, there's been a very sharp reduction. the response i got was "who cares? this is not about evidence, this is about ideology." this polarization produced ready-made ideologies people put on and it becomes their persona. it's who they are. anyway, this is very dreary and i -- [ laughter

. >>> you know the ask me anything events on reddit? the president, elon musk, stephen hawking they all did one. >> ronada rousey will do it. kris, for years she was actually part of -- and i am not making this up -- a kukemon chat group. >> one of the main questions she's going to get is who is next? >> you can't even imagine. i don't think they can find somebody who can beat her. >> maybe she boxes a man. we'll see. we'll find out at 4:30. >>> major u.s. retailer wants to put an end to gender labeling. target plans to top putting signage in departments suggesting that items are just for girls or boys. on the way out are pink, blue, green, yellow on the toy shelves. it will say just for kids. clothing, though, will still be divided among girls and boys. my girls will be happy, because they're sick of the pink. outside lands festival came to a close with elton john rocking the city ♪ good-bye yellow brick road >>> a rather muted outfit for him, wouldn't you think? elton john played to about 60,000 people. organizers livestreamed the ent

the social media site reddit is overhauling their content policy after shakeups. san francisco based company is rolling out a new on the in policy for content that could be considered offensive. they call the process quarantining. they have lost four female employees in a month and has had three crow -- c.e.o. changes since november. >> and now "good morning america" and the frozen agree story we are covering in san francisco. amy? >> good morning next on "good morning america" an exclusive. one-on-one with the california doctor and cancer survivor at the center of what could be an his tock legal battle. we have been following your come of the woman fight diagnosis keep her frozen embryos after a bit are divorce with her only chance to have biological children. the interview is coming up only on "good morning america" next. >> thank you, amy. >> happening today workers will treat a second algae bloom at oakland's lake that has country lake off limits to swimmer since june 30 but it does not appear to be toxic at the enter says of highway 13 and 24. oakland is join

pao recently resigned as ceo of reddit. >>> republican presidential hopeful jeb bush is scheduled to return to the bay area. he will attend a fundraiser in san francisco. tickets cost $2,700. this is the former florida governor's second stop here in the bay area in a month. >>> the smart train may lose its funding. a u.s. senate committee drastically cut a program. officials are still hopeful that some deal can be reached. in 2008, voters approved a sales tack with the promise the train would run from clover dale to larksburg, where riders could catch a ferry into san francisco. >>> now back to that search for a woman who may have jumped off the bay bridge into the waters below. abc 7 news reporter janet oh is live near the scene with the very latest for us. janet? >> reporter: you can see the coast guard out there on their boats with the flashing lights. they are following up on reports of a woman who may have gotten out of the water and seen on shore, but that is unconfirmed at this time. the search still continues this morning at this hour. several agencies are also on boats searc

she recently resigned as ceo of reddit. >>> jeb bush is scheduled to return to the bay area.ll be attending a fundraiser in san francisco. tickets cost about $2700. this is the former florida governor's second stop in the bay area in a month. >>> it's 5:06 now. let's turn things over to mike nicco. >> good morning. we're cooler inland especially. lafayette, san ramon, dublin, antioch, 57 degrees. danville at 58. pleasant hill 59. we've got walnut creek and livermore at 60. pittsburgh, you're at 63. blackhawk, 54 degrees right now. we have that same temperature in navarro. coming into san francisco or san carlos, 59. same thing in san jose. heyward about 58. oakland 56. you can see those late arriving clouds on our east bay hills camera. and because they're late arriving, they're going to go away pretty quickly today. a whole lot of sunshine. coast and san francisco about 64 to 70. around the bay, 69 to 79. it won't be quite as breezy as it was yesterday afternoon. keeping an eye on sfo, it's partly cloudy on the peninsula right now. fingers crossed that we don't have any flig

we're just volunteers but, you know, i was honestly hanging out a lot on reddit speaking to people excitedut policies and where he stands on issues that america's facing today. and it was all disorganized and i thought we should organize it and find it easy to find through search and understand and actually the entire site is built to -- almost in an faq format and interested in social security, we'll explain to you what social security is, what the state of it is right now before we dive into the policies and we really believe that you empower people with information and not opinions and writing 51 issue pages. that includes over 2,000 links to find out more. and over 100,000 words about where he stands on it. >> a book on bernie. >> a phd dissertation. >> a lot of folks in washington and in the media, they look at the enthusiasm for bernie sanders and they say that opens up space for other alternative candidates, space for biden. they read this bernie-mentum. the enthusiasm for him in the polls and they read it as dissatisfaction with hillary clinton. is that right? >> i'm not sure. i me

the theory first got attention when the directors casually mentioned during a reddit q and a session's folks didn't die on a boat and may have been eaten by a leopard like the parents in tarzan. as we discovered on our facebook page critics have a lot to say about that revelation that the films not only take place in different time periods they take place in entirely different parts of the world. so let us know was think. are elsa, ana and tarzan siblings? >> just amazing where these questions come from. >> i don't know. people are emphatically vote nothing. >> forget it: people will definitely respond i'm sure, brian. >>> time to get another check of what's happening on the roads. matt pelman in the "action news" traffic center with the update. hey, matt. >> sharrie if you normally head through cinnaminson you want to head elsa where. some progress since we last looked at the pictures from chopper 6hd. fire crews approached the vehicle, extinguished the fire. you see them gathered around that car that was in flames just about 10 minutes ago. we still have the downed pole. they've ki

anything, we presume it will last longer than 36 seconds. 4:30 had this afternoon rousy no stranger who reddit or online butt tin boards for years. she was part of a pokem o on is discussion group. ronda rousey if you are not familiar with her is the world champion woman -- what is it -- ultimate fighting. >> she is consuming the con tree right now. >> i don't know where she is going to find another opponent. that may be a serious problem. >> don't look here. >> go ahead, rhonda. >> thank you, scott. >>> a special tribute at sunday's oakland a's game to honor the life of hayward police sergeant scott lunger who was shot and killed during a traffic stop last month. >> he was even the coach for a girl's softball game at oakley's freedom high school. "today in the bay" chrissy smith was there where lunger's father and daughters played a sp eggs role. >> in a moment of silence to honor the late sergeant scott lunger. >> a day to honor and recognize the life of sergeant scott lunger. fallen hayward police officer's family there to see it all. >> it means the world to me. ever since the a's came to

after earl's picture posted on reddit, people could not get enough. he called it earl the grumpy puppy. earl has over 18,000 followers. here are some of his close ups. look at his face. it is like he's posing. don't be fooled by earl's looks. he is actually a friendly puppy who loves to meet new people. he looks grumpy because of an underbite and wrinkles. >> i think he is adorable. >> i don't think he's grumpy. >> i think he's sweet. i think he looks like et. there's a picture where he looks like et. >> he grows on you. he is a cute grumpy pup. >>> still how's it progressing with the prisoner? he'll tell us everything he knows very shortly, sir. as you were... where were we? 13 serving 14! service! if your boss stops by, you act like you're working. it's what you do. if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. if your purse is starting to look more like a tissue box... you may be muddling through allergies. try zyrtec for powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec is different than claritin . because

on reddit, one writes, when i went to the bathroom, i would hear at least one person crying, at least are thousands of us in seattle alone. on glass door.com, a networking site, amazon's positive reviews carried this concern. advice to management, remember, that the employees are people and not machines. ♪ amazon's own produced videos called "inside amazon", showcase employees who call the job challenging and cutting edge, but -- >> you either fit here or you don't. you love it or you don't. there is no middle ground really. >> reporter: amazon ceo jeff bezos, the vision airy, responded to the nosh times article in an e-mail to his more than 100,000 employees, writing, i don't recognize this amazon, adding amazon would not tolerate callous workplace behavior, but tech analysts say this behavior has been around at amazon for years, and frankly, other startups. john sullivan advises fortune 500 companies. >> they live in a different world. but when you have to be first, like an ebay, like an amazon, you have to have this kind of people. and i would say, shame on them, if they were surpr