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Substack is going to remove five Nazi newsletters
A recent report by The Atlantic identified over a dozen.
McKenzie’s December post was responding to a letter from over 200 Substack authors who cited, among other things, a recent report in The Atlantic that pointed out over a dozen newsletters with overt Nazi imagery, as well as many more with evidence of extremist views. Contacted by The Verge, Substack downplayed the situation in a statement signed by co-founders Chris, Hamish, and Jairaj, saying it would remove five publications that “do indeed violate our existing content guidelines, which prohibit incitements to violence based on protected classes.” According to the letter, none of the publications removed had paid subscriptions enabled and accounted for “about 100 active readers in total.” As noted by Platformer, another open letter from Substack writer Elle Griffin and signed by over a hundred other Substack authors backed the company’s existing “decentralized” approach to moderation, which does not allow content it deems as spam, or written by sex workers, but does allow Nazis.
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