Substack sent a push alert promoting a Nazi blog
www.usermag.co
The newsletter's logo is a swastika and it has pushed Holocaust denialism along with news and opinion content for the 'White Nationalist Community.'
    • megopie@beehaw.orgEnglish
      24·
      1 day ago

      Because there are no rich connected socialite interest groups that frequent same country clubs as the payment processor C suites who care about nazi’s, in fact, the same people pushing fash politics at sub stack probably go to the same country club.

  • spit_evil_olive_tips@beehaw.org
    52·
    2 days ago

    on one hand, if you’ve been following news about Substack at all, this is not particularly surprising:

    November 2023: Substack has a Nazi problem

    January 2024: Substack faces user revolt over anti-censorship stance on neo-Nazis

    but on the other hand…this is the kind of thing that will be surprising to a lot of people who aren’t savvy media consumers. if they thought about Substack at all they probably thought of it as just “that website with all the newsletters”.

    many of those people had the Substack app installed on their phones.

    they got a push notification. the icon of the push notification was a swastika.

    imagine looking at the list of notifications on your phone and just…seeing a whole-ass swastika.

    I would compare this to the time Elon Musk called that cave diver in Thailand a “pedo guy”. he was a shitbag before that, he was a shitbag after that, but that was still a watershed moment when a lot of people had the sudden realization of “oh, huh, this guy’s a shitbag”.

    Substack has been a Nazi bar for a few years now. they started allowing customers of the bar to hang up flags on the front patio. today was the day they hung up a Nazi flag.

  • Zier@fedia.io
    19·
    1 day ago

    I have an addon called uBlacklist, it blocks substack from showing up in search results. And I have it blocked in uBlock Origin as well. Anyone on the Fediverse promoting it also gets blocked. It’s nice to erase nazis from your feed and their enablers.

  • splendoruranium@infosec.pubEnglish
    124·
    2 days ago

    My knee-jerk reaction to that kind of headline is always to start mentally typing out a response warning of inflationary use of the term “Nazi”, but… er yeah, I guess that’s a Nazi blog alright.