The 2023 Nazi dispute of Substack was easy to see as a kick that could change again. Well, white domination material led to another headache for the company this week. User magazine Told on Tuesday that the app Sent a push alert Some users promote Nazi newspapers. The company said the Engadget notification was an “extremely aggressive and disturbing” error.
In question, the Substac Newslator describes itself as “a national socialist weekly newspaper”. This includes “important opinions and news for the national socialist and white nationalist community.” There are only 757 customers in far-flung blogs. (This is a decline in the ocean, says, Heather Cox Richardson’s 2.6 million, George Saunders 312,000 and Karim Abdul-Jabbar 236,000.)
Given the aggressive content of the newspaper and relatively palette the audience, it will not be like promoting anything. According to the company, this did not mean. “We discovered an error, due to which some people received push notifications, which they should never receive,” a substack spokesman told Engadget.
“In some cases, these information was extremely aggressive or disturbing,” the statement continued. “It was a serious error, and we apologize for the crisis caused by it. We have taken the relevant system offline, diagnosed the issue and changes to ensure that it does not happen again.”
Engadget asked Substack for additional details or reference how the accident occurred. There was no more comment at the time of publication. If we find out more then we will update this story.
User magazine Reports Those who click on the Nazi blog profile received recommendations for the same. He had a large audience of 8,600 customers.
One reason was a hurry to bounce social users on the latest phenomenon: this provides a symbolic callback to the 2023 Nazi shitstorm of the substation. Only then Atlantic to dig The “score” of white-superstitious, neo-conferencing and Nazi newsletters on the platform. Some were mudrested.
Substack’s policy is one of the anti-sensorship. “I just want to clarify that we do not like the Nazis – we want no one not to keep those ideas,” wrote In December 2023. “But some people catch those and other extreme ideas. Given that, we do not think that censorship (through disintegration of publication) removes the problem – in fact, it makes it worse.”
After the weeks of negative press coverage and major authors leaving the stage, substas trusted … type. On one hand, the company removed the “some” supporters Nazi publications. However, it did so without changing its policies. Instead, it said that five publications violated its existing material guidelines. In particular, he “broke the rules that instigate violence based on protected classes.”
Some critics did not believe that it was enough. PlatformorThe Casey Newton, a major voice that left the substack during the episode thought the company needed to take more responsibility. “Every platform hosts racists, white nationalists and other toxic personalities,” Newton wrote In early 2024. “In some very real sense, they do not have to escape online. But they must have less ways to see; to reduce them less;
Substack has since found his foot as a shelter for independent material creators. Many journalists have instigated the traditional media wishing to create an audience sales for this. (Between others, that list is included Tina brown, Gym acostea, Terry Moran And Jennifer Rubin.) In recent years, Substack has added a Twitter-like social feature, live video and tiktok-soque vertical video.
The company said that it has Biggest week 82 percent of the membership paid during the 2024 presidential election was promoted. This recently raised $ 100 million in funding.
