Digg, a community platform, has shut down two months after its highly anticipated relaunch by Reddit co-founder, Kevin Rose, and CEO Justin Mezzell, due to an "unprecedented bot problem". The company had been attempting to address the issue with a combination of AI and multiple verification cues. However, the bot problem proved more severe than the team anticipated and led to the closure of the site. Despite this, Mezzel maintains that Digg will not disappear and the team will be significantly downsized, but Rose will return full-time to help prepare the company for the new reboot.