On April 1st, Reddit launched a new page: The Button. It was paired with a countdown timer. 60 seconds. If anyone anywhere on Earth pressed it, the timer would reset. For two months, the timer ...

The book was co-written by Bridget Hodder, a Sephardic Jew and the daughter and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, and Fawzia Gilani-Williams, who is Muslim.

When Reddit launched “The Button” almost two weeks ago, the game-slash-gimmick-slash-odd-social-experiment was billed as some kind of April Fool’s joke.