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Techmeme
@Techmeme@techhub.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Substack apologizes after sending a push alert encouraging some users to subscribe to NatSocToday, a Nazi newsletter advocating for a "White homeland" (Taylor Lorenz/User Mag)

https://www.usermag.co/p/substack-sent-a-push-alert-promoting-nazi-white-supremacist-blog
http://www.techmeme.com/250730/p21#a250730p21

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FediThing 🏳️‍🌈
@FediThing@social.chinwag.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@Techmeme

But Substack DON'T apologise for hosting Nazis and allowing Nazis to post Nazi-promoting lies. They also don't apologise for making money from hosting Nazis.

Substack are STILL hosting Nazis, this isn't some kind of rogue account.

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David Megginson
@david_megginson@mstdn.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@Techmeme Substack's apology is the worst part:

We discovered an error that caused some people to receive push notifications they should never have received,

So their actual concern is that their filter bubble malfunctioned???

In other words, "we're sorry that our algorithms misclassified some of our users as neo-Nazis and fed them the wrong recommendations." 🤦‍♂️

#substack #filtering#socialMedia

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Ox1de
@Ox1de@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@Techmeme apology not accepted
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