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Public statement source · YT608
Dr. Taban continues to PROMOTE HIS BUTCHERY
the "compensating" grievance, naming the tracked defendant. the Reddit vote-manipulation allegation, seven months before the Reddit actions of August 2025.
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so instead of compensating his botched patience Dr tban is focusing his efforts on promoting his Services he's continuing to use his connections and control over social media to mislead people into getting procedures with him
Frames the grievance in compensation terms — the surgeon is alleged to be spending on promotion rather than paying the people he is said to have injured — while two Taban actions were pending. It also states the "connections and control over social media" theory eleven days before the same theory is applied to Google in another video on the channel. It names Taban (rendered "tban" by the captions), a tracked defendant. No filing conduct is described: no case, court, docket, judge or lawyer appears anywhere in the video, and no suit is mentioned.
lately over the past few weeks on Reddit people have become aware of how horrifically he botched me and it was really deterring people from cons ING with him so they decided to get this guy who had surgery with him do a bunch of fake up votes on it which you know he has okay results and then they put a bunch of like really positive fake comments at the top of the post
The load-bearing quote of the video. It names Reddit — Reddit, Inc. is a tracked defendant and the subject of its own dispute group, the Reddit litigation — and alleges vote and comment manipulation on a Reddit post about him, orchestrated by "they." This is the platform-manipulation theory stated on a dated record seven months before the 2025 Reddit filings, and it connects the Reddit litigation and the Taban eye-surgery dispute in a single sentence. The antecedent of "they" is never stated — it is not said to be Taban, his staff, his counsel or Reddit itself, and it must not be resolved by assumption. No filing conduct is described.
so I mean what did we expect this guy has butchered hundreds and hundreds of people doesn't care No Remorse whatsoever
A quantified allegation against a named tracked defendant — "hundreds and hundreds of people" — offered with no source, no register, no count and no citation of any kind. Recorded precisely because it is quantified and therefore falsifiable, and because the scale asserted here is far beyond anything pleaded in the tracked actions. No filing conduct described. Tier: Moderate (No filing-conduct factor)
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2025-06513 — Tufano v. Reddit IncTranscript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:21 researched as bearing on this case: the Reddit vote-manipulation allegation, seven months before the Reddit actions of August 2025.
3:24-cv-01114 — Tufano v. Reddit, Inc.Transcript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:21 researched as bearing on this case: the Reddit vote-manipulation allegation, seven months before the Reddit actions of August 2025.
3:25-cv-01495 — Tufano v. Reddit, Inc.Transcript reference · Medium · Timestamped statement at 00:21 researched as bearing on this case: the Reddit vote-manipulation allegation, seven months before the Reddit actions of August 2025.