I can confirm this is probably happening because some of their staff are leaky leaky among certain groups. Unless they cancel which I doubt.
I have suspicions that it might even be crypto related, they actively pursued a reddit blockchain thing at one point in the past before sacking the main person responsible halfway through the job with 1 week notice.
Predictions on how this turns out?
Obviously, this will incentivize increased bot usage and push posting to the lowest common denominator.
Of course reedit is going to try something like this to juice their user stats before going public and cashing out.