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Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Yesterday Substack reached unicorn status (1 billion dollar valuation). Yes, Substack, the publishing equivalent of a Nazi bar.

2 months ago I collected evidence of what the lack of moderation does: putting unchecked racism, antisemitism & fatphobia out in the open.

I collected evidence but I'm not the right person to air this. Do you have recommendations re: bloggers / journalists who might be interested?

Update: I just wrote to Jason at 404 Media 💁‍♀️

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diorama ١٣١٢ (hänet/demm/ihn)
@diorama@stereodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@_elena the conversationalist https://conversationalist.org/
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taziden
@taziden@mstdn.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@_elena <3
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COD
@chrisod@social.lol replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@_elena

@taylorlorenz

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Oneironaut
@Oneironaut@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@_elena its really unfortunate that the journalists I would want to tag are Substack users themselves
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Joe Brockmeier (@jzb)
@jzb@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@_elena Maybe someone from @404mediaco would be interested?
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Paul DO
@rimesparse@universeodon.com replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@_elena Judd Legum
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ralf tauscher :FreiburgSocial:
@stereo@freiburg.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@_elena
cc @BlumeEvolution ?
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Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@crecente thank you Drew! 🙏
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Drew Crecente (they/them)
@crecente@games.ngo replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@_elena

🧡 Thank you for doing your part in reporting unacceptable online content! That is more than most folks would do.

(I work for a NGO in the US. We prevent violence against adolescents. Online content causes harm in many ways.)

Hopefully Substack has taken appropriate action by now.

If not, there might be some other options for reporting the content. This guidance from the Let's STOP Hate Speech group, funded by the EU might be helpful:

🌐https://absbg.eu/en/european-commission-combating-hate-speech-and-hate-crime/

#hatespeech #substack #misinformation #racism #publichealth #media

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Em :official_verified:
@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@_elena 💚
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Samantha Rose
@samantha42@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@Lioh
Informing more people about what Substack really is seems like a valuable thing to do to me.

I see many people using Substack that are not hard right-wingers.

@_elena

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Elena Rossini ⁂
@_elena@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@jzb thank you Joe! 🙏

@lwn @404mediaco @jasonkoebler

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Joe Brockmeier (@jzb)
@jzb@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@_elena Excellent. Since Substack is a proprietary service it's not really in our mandate at @lwn but it seems right up the alley for @404mediaco @jasonkoebler
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Lioh
@Lioh@social.anoxinon.de replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@_elena I don't feel it like under the rug. What is with other platforms like truth.social, X, Facebook. They are widely known for promoting hate speech as well.
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Lioh
@Lioh@social.anoxinon.de replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@_elena I don't really understand what you want to achieve by that. The platform is known for allowing and promoting potential harmful content. Besides that, didn't you mention recently that you would like to keep this kind of heated negative discussion off the Fedi?
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Lorenzo Strambi
@Lukather@mastodon.uno replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@_elena cool but... I got 350 subs and my newsletter is free so every platform that asks me more than zero euro it'll a 'cost'. I don't even see it as an investment because I don't think the NL will grow more than that. The solution I see is to transform it in a blog (I already have some hosting space on Infomaniak).
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Paul DO
@rimesparse@universeodon.com replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@_elena Marisa Kabas would be a possibility. She’s great. And on Beehiiv not S-stack.
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Paul DO
@rimesparse@universeodon.com replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@_elena Maybe it would finally convince him to leave there? I hope. :)
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Lorenzo Strambi
@Lukather@mastodon.uno replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@_elena I'm very interested in the topic. Already know about this issue but it seems that is worsening.
My newsletter is hosted there and I really like to move away but the costs of doing it is too much to afford.
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Drew Crecente (they/them)
@crecente@games.ngo replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@_elena

Substack appears more than happy to profit from harm and hate.

"[...] Substack's refusal to tackle misinformation and hate speech is still happening. Writers are publicly speaking out about leaving Substack or calling out the company's policies when it comes to free speech, content moderation, and censorship."

🌐https://mashable.com/article/substack-writers-leaving-misinformation

#misinfomation #racism #transphobic #media

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