Digg Lays Off 25, Accused of Creating Fake Accounts to Game Its Own System

First, the content-sharing site announced Monday that it would slash its staff from 67 to 42. Then, later that day, Digg user LtGenPanda published a long, detailed blog post titled, “Did Digg game its own system to benefit publisher partners?” and accusing Digg of creating fake accounts to boost the Digg referrals of its publishing partners.

Recently named Digg CEO Matt Williams on the layoffs, from the Digg Blog:

When I joined Digg six weeks ago, we set an immediate focus on improving the Web site.