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Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology | Substack may be legitimizing neo-Nazis as "thought leaders," researcher warns.
Substack may be legitimizing neo-Nazis as “thought leaders,” researcher warns.
Fisher-Birch recommended that Substack take the opportunity of its latest scandal to revisit its content guidelines "and forbid content that promotes hatred or discrimination based on race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability, or medical condition." "If Substack changed its content guidelines and prohibited individuals and groups that promote white supremacism and neo-Nazism from using its platform, the extreme right would move to other online spaces," Fisher-Birch said. Instead, Fisher-Birch noted, Substack appears to have failed to follow its own "limited community guidelines" and never removed a white supremacist blog promoting killing one's enemies and violence against Jewish people, which CEP reported to the platform back in March 2024.
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