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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."
The alert contained a swastika and prompted users to subscribe to newsletter featuring opinions and news important to the "white nationalist community."
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.” In 2023, the journalist Jonathan Katz at The Atlantic identified at least 16 newsletters featuring overt Nazi imagery, including the swastika and the sonnenrad, and several others promoting the Great Replacement theory. But many high profile former users, like Newton, have argued that Substack has evolved beyond a traditional newsletter platform and now functions much more similarly to a modern social media app with algorithmic recommendations fueling internal discovery and growth.
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