Days afterward, spez got on a conference call and falsely claimed that Christian was blackmailing him. An employee of Reddit itself affirmed that he said it in a summary of the call they posted to a (private) sub of high-level moderators, replicated here:

https://old.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/143rk5p/reddit_he...

(The summary in the main thread was written by members of the community on the call, the comment I linked is Reddit’s own summary.)

Reddit has also repeated the same claim off-the-record to multiple journalists.