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I think the usage of "dark" means "isn't touched by the light of the sun," as in, it's so deep down only Angler Fish live there. Reddit might be accessible from the "surfice web," but there are so many people using the site and so many subreddits that it houses its own "dark web." Small, niche communities, cryptic communities; all lurking at the very bottom of Reddit. Almost all social media, of note, houses dark corners where creeps and weirdos congregate. These systems are so vast that they require the crowd to suss out unwanted content, and if nothing gets reported, almost nothing gets removed. Fliters and automation only go so far, and when people adapt to those systems, they become useless.
That being said, CNN is also calling it "dark" because they couldn't be bothered to even do a surface glance at places like Reddit to even understand what goes on there.
CNN, at some point, claimed that the dude got radicalized by Discord. i'm convinced that they know next to nothing about social media beyond insta and twitter.
I fully believe that. It's also a kind of "black box" service, where you can't just "browse it" like you would Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook. If you are not a member of a Discord server, Discord does basically nothing.