Q&A with Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar on running the company, growing a SaaS business, content moderation, community satisfaction, Web3, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Sara Fischer / Axios:
Memo: Meta plans to merge its business integrity unit, which moderates ads, and central integrity team, which moderates posts; the team will have ~3,000 people  —  Meta is merging its business integrity unit, the team that moderates ad content, with its central integrity team …

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Reddit acquires contextual advertising company Spiketrap to improve its ad quality scoring and boost prediction models for auto-bidding  —  Reddit’s acquisition spree is continuing this morning with news that the company is bringing the audience contextualization company Spiketrap’s technology in-house.

Fortune:
How Reddit’s blockchain-based Collectible Avatars, which avoid the NFT label, became popular; Polygon data shows the total sales volume was $10M+ by November 2  —  At 2:59 p.m. ET on Oct. 20, when Reddit announced its second generation of collectible avatars, Ethan Clark was ready, phone in hand.

James Vincent / The Verge:
Stack Overflow temporarily bans users from sharing responses generated by ChatGPT, pending a ruling in the future; most answers are wrong on closer inspection  —  Stack Overflow, the go-to question-and-answer site for coders and programmers, has temporarily banned users from sharing responses generated by AI chatbot ChatGPT.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Reddit’s chief product officer says 3M+ users created Reddit Vault wallets, including 2.5M to buy NFT avatars that can be used as profile pictures on the site  —  In July, Reddit jumped on the NFT train, launching an NFT-based marketplace that allows users to purchase blockchain-based profile pictures for a fixed rate.

Nilay Patel / The Verge:
“Welcome to hell, Elon:” Musk won’t be able to grow Twitter users and revenue without compromises and realizing that content moderation is the main product  —  You break it, you buy it. … Twitter is a disaster clown car company that is successful despite itself …