Digg Lays Off Staff And Shuts Down App As Company Retools

Digg Lays Off Staff And Shuts Down App As Company Retools

Digg Lays Off Staff and Shuts App as Bot Crisis Hits Hard Digg, the revived link-sharing platform co-founded by Kevin Rose, has laid off a significant portion of its staff and shut down its app. The company announced the cuts on Friday, March 13, 2026, blaming an overwhelming bot invasion it simply could not contain. Digg is not shutting down entirely, but it is undergoing a serious retooling — and Rose is coming back to lead the charge himself. Kevin Rose Returns Full-Time as Digg Fights to Survive Kevin Rose, who originally built Digg into one of the most visited websites on the internet in the mid-2000s, had been serving in an advisory role at investing firm True Ventures while Digg CEO Justin Mezzell ran the day-to-day operations of the relaunched startup. That arrangement is now changing. Rose will step back from his investor role — though he will remain an advisor at True Ventures — and shift his primary professional focus back to Digg. The move signals just how serious the situat…