"Oops", Or Testing The Waters?
Taylor Lorenz / User Mag:
Substack apologizes after sending a push alert encouraging some users to subscribe to NatSocToday, a Nazi newsletter advocating for a “White homeland” — The alert contained a swastika and prompted users to subscribe to newsletter featuring opinions and news important to the “white nationalist community.”
Marcus Schuler / Implicator.ai: OpenAI's Study Mode Fights Cheating—with a Kill SwitchEvan DeSimone / @mediaevan: Putting that new funding to work immediately, I see...Dan Kennedy / @dankennedy.net: The latest Nazi fiasco @taylorlorenz.bsky.social writes about is a consequence of Substack's two clashing goals: to offer an excellent self-publishing platform and to become big players in the publishing world. It ought to focus on the former. www.usermag.co/p/substack-s...Jännät / @jaennaet.fi: Oh how surprising, Substack still has a Nazi problem. — It's a shame that for some it's the only viable platform, but if you have a non-monetised blog on Substack, I'd suggest getting the fuck out.@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net: We host Nazis because if we didn't, things would be even worse — That's #substack's policy since quite some time. I'll leave it up to you to decide if you want to support that take by visiting their site or using it to host your content. — https://www.usermag.co/... [image]Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: SCOOP: Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog. The alert contained a swastika and prompted users to subscribe to newsletter featuring opinions and news important to the “white nationalist community.” https://www.usermag.co/...Patricia Sauthoff / @sauthoff.bsky.social: A good time to get off Substack is now. [embedded post]Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: Users who clicked on the push alert were recommended related content from another Nazi newsletter called White Rabbit, which identifies as a “Southern White Nationalist” and has garnered over 8,600 subscribers https://www.usermag.co/...Thord D. Hedengren / @tdh: Substack sent a push notification promoting a nazi blog, swastikka and all... Nobody should be surprised. https://www.patreon.com/...Julien Hoez / @julienhoez: I, a French social liberal, was added to an absolutely bizarre fascist substacker group chat on Twitter about half a year ago, probably because I have a semi-well-known Substack, and I decided to observe these lunatics in their natural habitat. Honest to god, I have never seen aSky / @scroeser@kolektiva.social: “Substack sent a push alert encouraging users to subscribe to a Nazi newsletter that claimed Jewish people are a sickness and that we must eradicate minorities to build a “White homeland."" https://www.usermag.co/...Taylor Lorenz / @taylorlorenz: The most recent post on NatSocToday, the Nazi newsletter Substack promoted, speaks about the necessity of building a white-only America https://www.usermag.co/...@markwyner@mas.to: Substack promoted a literal nazi propaganda pub with push notifications to random people. — Their response? Not “sorry we host Nazis.” It was “sorry for the technology glitch.” — WHAT‽ 🤬 — To all writers and journalists who use Substack. Im unsubscribing from your feeds and email lists. …John Socks / @John@socks.masto.host: Substack isn't really Nazi .. — Oh, this just in: — https://www.usermag.co/...John-Mark Gurney / @encthenet@flyovercountry.social: You know the best way to not send a push alert with a swastika in it? By not hosting Nazis. But substack won't do this simple thing because they support Nazis. — > https://www.usermag.co/...@MissConstrue@mefi.social: Y'all, #Substack is a #Nazi bar. — Taylor Lorenz (@taylorlorenz ) breaks the story about how Substack sent a push alert encouraging users to subscribe to a Nazi newsletter that claimed Jewish people are a sickness and that we must eradicate minorities to build a “White homeland.” …
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