It's a shame it happens but I'm sure Substack is a significant target of censorship and threats. Kind of seems to me that they're making it easy to figure out their algorithms and aren't trying too hard to obscure their process. After all it's not subtle and almost cartoonishly obvious to anyone familiar with how internet publishing works. Maybe they're doing the best that can be expected to shield authors since it doesn't seem like content has ever been restricted.
Intentionally bumping off people with far higher engagement rates is suppression, which is a type of restriction (the chilling of speech by implicit discouragement). It is called censorship via the backdoor, and saying 'but it isn't an overt ban' is meaningless, if the top spots are occupied by fraud. You're promoting fraudulent, fake speech with fake engagement. That isn't what drives natural platform growth.
They could certainly start by improving the algorithm by highlighting engagement across multiple metrics rather than single total numbers, such as total paying subscribers. I bet you the ratio would quickly change if it was an earnings total, not a total number of subscribers, and especially if they were ranked by average number of likes and comment engagements, not purely free subscriber counts.
Botnets doing bulk mass registration has been a thing for a while now. Allowing this to happen waters down the value of statistics and data and leads to platform distrust, which in turn discourages platform use and that of advertisers and investors.
Translation: don't go the way of Sam Bankman-Fried.
Extract from the Epimonitor website, which seems to be a member organisation.
“About The Epidemiology Monitor
EpiMonitor is epidemiology for epidemiologists. We distill and summarize the latest epidemiological news, provide a comprehensive list of job opportunities and collaborations, list upcoming conferences and professional development opportunities to advance careers, and highlights news on epidemiologists. This community is refuge from our broad and often siloed field by providing a space for critical discussions, and opportunities for continued education and training.
EpiMonitor was founded in 1980 by Roger H. Bernier, Ph.D, MPH, who served as Editor and Publisher for 40 years while working at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2022, EpiMonitor was acquired by Katelyn Jetelina, MPH PhD. The office is currently located in Southern California.
The EpiMonitor Team
Katelyn K. Jetelina, PhD, MPH, Editor in Chief
Katelyn Jetelina is an epidemiologist, educator, and scientific communicator. She earned her MPH in 2014 and PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics in 2016 at the University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health. In the past 10 years, she worked at the World Health Organization headquarters, built a research lab at the University of Texas Health Science Center and, taught hundreds of graduate students in epidemiology and applied statistics. Currently she works at a non-partisan health policy think tank and is engaged as a scientific communication consultant by the CDC. In addition, she is the founder and author of Your Local Epidemiologist- a newsletter that "translates" public health research and events (like the COVID19 pandemic) to the public. In two years, this newsletter reached 160 million people in 132 countries.
It’s possible that she and her husband are good at promotion and all the Epimonitor members subscribed to the substack. She may also have had some help from the CDC.
That's a slam dunk hit then. "scientific communication" is simply government speak for someone who posts government-approved messages (read: propaganda) on the topic. Consultant just means 'paid'.
Usually it implies the person doesn't have any actual qualifications per se, they just regurgitate whatever they're given on a script. That "Infodemic" manager was one such example of a so-called 'science communicator'.
Nice. I’m sure that the CDC and the WHO were both very impressed by how conveniently her PhD in domestic violence gives her plenty of title without any cumbersome knowledge, making her the perfect vessel to repeat whatever she is told without any desire to ask questions or understand.
It could be the government are gaming the system. Fake subscribers coupled with government financing paid subscriptions (notice it is for $5 a month, which is the cheapest possible rate one can set). That said, Substack have a responsibility to 'clean house' and allow natural engagement to flourish, not artificially financed engagement.
If you had your hand in a taxpayer funded pie, would you take it out without tasting some crumbs? That's what Substack appears to be doing: promote a taxpayer-funded shill, collect sub revenue on the side.
Domestic abuse and bullying epidemiologist???!!!! Is there a vaccine for that sort of thing?
The proliferation of pompous "scientific" credentials has gotten way out of hand. When I was a teenager, we made jokes about our crappy teenage jobs - a dishwasher at a breakfast restaurant was a "porcelain sanitation engineer," and running the brush chipper for a landscaper made you a "natural matter conversion engineer." We had a lot of fun making up silly stuff like that, but it was a JOKE!
A friend and I were speaking about Substack yesterday evening, and she said that she was so glad that Substack existed, given all the censorship that is around us. Cynical as I am, I told her that we can enjoy it while it lasts in its current form, but if it gets too big and influential, the government will surely swoop in and compromise it. (Heck, for all we know, it could BE a government creation.) For the record, I hate thinking like this.
Nov 16, 2023·edited Nov 16, 2023Liked by The Underdog
Here's another example of useless and dangerous Covid 'Vax' reality - Airline pilots who were forced by MANDATE to accept the EXPERIMENTAL Covid 'vax' are now far less healthy and susceptible to many more serious health complications that could (and WILL) occur during flights. Myocarditis is rife among Airline staff.
ALL DUE TO THE MANDATED 'SAFE & EFFECTIVE' COVID INJECTION, which is injuring and killing thousands worldwide. All this mayhem and excess death was caused by the DEADLY injections made by companies like Pfizer who dictate a NO LIABILITY CLAUSE if you want to buy their useless but deadly Covid 'cure'. It's simply depopulation.
Example of the inherent dangers we all now face if we choose to keep flying;
"There have been many tragedies this year. Phil Thomas, a young graduate of the Cadiz, Spain, flight training academy, fell ill and died suddenly in April. There were five pilot incapacitations in March including a British Airways pilot who collapsed and died in Cairo, Egypt not long before he was due to fly."
We can either take a rushed course on 'How to pilot a Boing 737' or hope they start to use a PILOT, a Co-Pilot and a SPARE pilot!
All gullible 'patients' that didn't think before participating in an EXPERIMENT, are now all GENETICALLY MODIFIED as was factually covered up by Pfizer and other unscrupulous deadly injection makers.
You should never have allowed them to experiment (Pfuck) with the human body and expect it to get better! It's simply inviting a shorter Life Expectancy or a sudden 'inexplicable' early death.
Whoa! Thanks for this post and the in-depth analysis. Thanks to Sasha for restacking your article. Just subscribed and looking forward to following the work
Had followed her on Facebook early in trying to get a balanced view but had to stop due to the comments section being to hardcore pro vaccine for me. Had a look recently and the number of comments has dropped dramatically with most remaining talking about how luckily they are to have had 6 shots and only had Covid 5 times🤦♀️ I had noticed 6mths back that the comments had started to turn against her views. She joined Substack early on and might have moved most followers over to maintain the bubble
I concur and agree, it is sinister and bordering on fraudulent the manipulation you so succinctly and factually report on with regard the apparent coercive actions taken by publishers and Content Providers, in this example and sadly, Substack, an enterprising Start up and relative newbie in the Soc Media space.
I guess however, giving what is known about these Companies, is that they are in the main, small, timid, lack guts, a spine, ethics and adherence to journalistic ethos, convention and standards that defined what once stood proud as a wonderful and great profession.
The fall from the elevated status of purveyors of truth, of investigating and following the Story, to its natural conclusion, in other words, allowing the facts to both guide and to lead vis a viz, the now ridiculous and so oft engaged trait of merely repeating the mantra, the talking points, the narrative that has been in so many cases pre determined and then foisted upon the News Organisations that range from the Mainstream News Media Services, Radio, Print, Television, Movies, Documentary’s and all of the new forms of Social Media that we have become used to.
It takes only the slightest threat to be intimated during a visit, for people from across all demographics to recoil, to sh.t themselves literally, at the oft stated and or insinuated risks that will be likely to befall the targeted party. These risks and or threat of risk, of harm, injury, blackmail, death, need only be lightly or mentioned with subtlety during a regular conversation to ensure the desired outcome.
However and since the elites were compelled to force the pace on implanting and rolling out their turgid and truly despotic globalist agenda, an agenda heavily predicate on Control, them over you, me, your family, friends, with the stated objective of ultimately our owning absolutely nothing, nada, zip, zero, the big donut, that we own zero, but that we will all, in owning nothing, having our property rights disestablished, our property given up, handed over in exchange for ushering in an authoritative regime and means of government that will from its inception maintain public and civil order, law and justice (We know this system, one that applies standards of Law and Order for the so called elites and which is so different to the Law and Justice system that will undoubtedly be applied to ourselves, we see evidence of such in many jurisdictions across the World, already Canada, U.S, U.K, Western Europe)
This introduction of a dual interpretation of Laws, Justice, of the Globalist Agenda, the elites envisage will be ushered in readily on the back of the chaos and mayhem, the insecurity they are to unleash upon us, promising us authority, oh and an income for doing nothing, an income that is subsistence at best, conditional and with the caveat we relinquish property rights, in other words we own as stated, nothing, but, you will be happy as you are asset less, eating bugs, the finest cuts, fruits, vegetables, wines etc… reserved for the elites, those who will Lord it over us, our masters in other words.
In order to usher in this evil, this vile Dystopian agenda they need first and foremost to control the narrative over every aspect of our lives, that includes so many of the Social Media publications and publishers, outlets such as and that include the likes of Substack.
I; addition the age old trope of intimidation, threat, etc… Monies are used as a last resort, positions taken in fledgling start ups such as Substack, the trade off for such largesse, doing as your told, when your told, such as not accepting material, declining to publish, stacking figures, using fake accounts, introducing bots etc… in essence selling your soul in exchange for short term financial reward.
Instead of declining, challenging, pushing back, giving and raising the middle finger, simply saying what needs said, sod off, I’m not for sale, nor are my staff, or the outlet I own, but as we know, sadly everyone has a price, a break point that once reached they simply cave, sad when you consider how insidious this has become, how such behavioural traits from those in authority, the monied, has corrupted Academia, our political classes, elected and the appointed, the permanent Administrative State, all areas it seems of public life, Law and Order, justice, policing, our Corporates, our Universities some of our Churches, literally everything a functioning society requires to survive and to exist has been corrupted by this odious behaviour.
In order to resist we must stand tall, steadfast, ramrod straight, be assured as to our individual, community and national moral values, we must simply say no, turn the lobbyists away, show them the door, equally give and afford no time to the Think Tanks, Councils, Foundations and other NGO’s, who themselves foment and enable so much of what has led to this decline, show them the door, don’t return nor take their calls.
If however you are engaged in, involved with this sordid corrupt activity, know we have awakened, we know what your about, we will identify you, giving no quarter, publicising you, your role, your organisation and the impact of activity upon us all, upon us individually, as families, as a community, as a nation, you will be called out and ultimately it you, those who foment and enable this behaviour, the destruction of all we hold dear who will be cancelled, persecuted, called out and rightly so…
The tables will be turned, just as Bud, Disney, Netflix and so many others have found out, Billions being wiped from value… for that is our ultimate strength, hence you either stay true or lose… a lot is at stake, hence manipulation such as highlighted by DB this article will be short lived, pyrrhic victories at best, whilst those writers of class will be sustained and enjoy longevity… est to you all from New Zealand, Kia Kaha stand firm…
thank you for this insightful analysis. shame on Substack. remain vigilant at all times
It's a shame it happens but I'm sure Substack is a significant target of censorship and threats. Kind of seems to me that they're making it easy to figure out their algorithms and aren't trying too hard to obscure their process. After all it's not subtle and almost cartoonishly obvious to anyone familiar with how internet publishing works. Maybe they're doing the best that can be expected to shield authors since it doesn't seem like content has ever been restricted.
Intentionally bumping off people with far higher engagement rates is suppression, which is a type of restriction (the chilling of speech by implicit discouragement). It is called censorship via the backdoor, and saying 'but it isn't an overt ban' is meaningless, if the top spots are occupied by fraud. You're promoting fraudulent, fake speech with fake engagement. That isn't what drives natural platform growth.
They could certainly start by improving the algorithm by highlighting engagement across multiple metrics rather than single total numbers, such as total paying subscribers. I bet you the ratio would quickly change if it was an earnings total, not a total number of subscribers, and especially if they were ranked by average number of likes and comment engagements, not purely free subscriber counts.
Botnets doing bulk mass registration has been a thing for a while now. Allowing this to happen waters down the value of statistics and data and leads to platform distrust, which in turn discourages platform use and that of advertisers and investors.
Translation: don't go the way of Sam Bankman-Fried.
Extract from the Epimonitor website, which seems to be a member organisation.
“About The Epidemiology Monitor
EpiMonitor is epidemiology for epidemiologists. We distill and summarize the latest epidemiological news, provide a comprehensive list of job opportunities and collaborations, list upcoming conferences and professional development opportunities to advance careers, and highlights news on epidemiologists. This community is refuge from our broad and often siloed field by providing a space for critical discussions, and opportunities for continued education and training.
EpiMonitor was founded in 1980 by Roger H. Bernier, Ph.D, MPH, who served as Editor and Publisher for 40 years while working at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2022, EpiMonitor was acquired by Katelyn Jetelina, MPH PhD. The office is currently located in Southern California.
The EpiMonitor Team
Katelyn K. Jetelina, PhD, MPH, Editor in Chief
Katelyn Jetelina is an epidemiologist, educator, and scientific communicator. She earned her MPH in 2014 and PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics in 2016 at the University of Texas Health Science Center School of Public Health. In the past 10 years, she worked at the World Health Organization headquarters, built a research lab at the University of Texas Health Science Center and, taught hundreds of graduate students in epidemiology and applied statistics. Currently she works at a non-partisan health policy think tank and is engaged as a scientific communication consultant by the CDC. In addition, she is the founder and author of Your Local Epidemiologist- a newsletter that "translates" public health research and events (like the COVID19 pandemic) to the public. In two years, this newsletter reached 160 million people in 132 countries.
Christopher Jetelina, BA, Chief of Operations”
Her LinkedIn page
https://www.linkedin.com/in/katelynkassarjian?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app
It’s possible that she and her husband are good at promotion and all the Epimonitor members subscribed to the substack. She may also have had some help from the CDC.
"scientific communication consultant by the CDC"
That's a slam dunk hit then. "scientific communication" is simply government speak for someone who posts government-approved messages (read: propaganda) on the topic. Consultant just means 'paid'.
Usually it implies the person doesn't have any actual qualifications per se, they just regurgitate whatever they're given on a script. That "Infodemic" manager was one such example of a so-called 'science communicator'.
Nice. I’m sure that the CDC and the WHO were both very impressed by how conveniently her PhD in domestic violence gives her plenty of title without any cumbersome knowledge, making her the perfect vessel to repeat whatever she is told without any desire to ask questions or understand.
I have noticed the sharp lack of credentials or knowledge in the field of vaccines these days.
Software engineers seem to be the in thing right now...
Ooh....husband and wife team..now where have I seen that before....
Nice work!
But ominous -- I'd been hoping Substack would hold out against Overlord pressure..
It could be the government are gaming the system. Fake subscribers coupled with government financing paid subscriptions (notice it is for $5 a month, which is the cheapest possible rate one can set). That said, Substack have a responsibility to 'clean house' and allow natural engagement to flourish, not artificially financed engagement.
If you had your hand in a taxpayer funded pie, would you take it out without tasting some crumbs? That's what Substack appears to be doing: promote a taxpayer-funded shill, collect sub revenue on the side.
Domestic abuse and bullying epidemiologist???!!!! Is there a vaccine for that sort of thing?
The proliferation of pompous "scientific" credentials has gotten way out of hand. When I was a teenager, we made jokes about our crappy teenage jobs - a dishwasher at a breakfast restaurant was a "porcelain sanitation engineer," and running the brush chipper for a landscaper made you a "natural matter conversion engineer." We had a lot of fun making up silly stuff like that, but it was a JOKE!
Many job titles these days actually include such pretentious roles for obviously minor work roles:
"Chemical cleaning specialist" - cleaner
"Cleaning Architect" - cleaner
"Cleaning solutions operative" - cleaner
"Major loss adjuster" - insurance claims handler
"Customer service operative" - telephone operator
"Customer service advisor" - telephone operator
"Inbound sales advisor" - telephone operator who answers calls
"Scientific communications consultant" - propaganda poster
👏👏 Brilliant exposé ... Wow... The bare faced boldness of the "epidemiologist"... What a fraud...
Substack need to tread very carefully. Involving themselves in these sorts of shenanigans can crater credibility overnight.
Today's darling becomes tomorrow's MySpace.
I have never seen somebody go shot for shot down the rabbit hole. wild to see this thought process illustrated so closely. Thank you.
A friend and I were speaking about Substack yesterday evening, and she said that she was so glad that Substack existed, given all the censorship that is around us. Cynical as I am, I told her that we can enjoy it while it lasts in its current form, but if it gets too big and influential, the government will surely swoop in and compromise it. (Heck, for all we know, it could BE a government creation.) For the record, I hate thinking like this.
It could be the government artificially gaming the Substack system, but whatever it is, Substack do have something to address.
A less cynical mind might say Substack are letting the government pour money into Substack and reinvesting it back into critical works...
excellent
Here's another example of useless and dangerous Covid 'Vax' reality - Airline pilots who were forced by MANDATE to accept the EXPERIMENTAL Covid 'vax' are now far less healthy and susceptible to many more serious health complications that could (and WILL) occur during flights. Myocarditis is rife among Airline staff.
ALL DUE TO THE MANDATED 'SAFE & EFFECTIVE' COVID INJECTION, which is injuring and killing thousands worldwide. All this mayhem and excess death was caused by the DEADLY injections made by companies like Pfizer who dictate a NO LIABILITY CLAUSE if you want to buy their useless but deadly Covid 'cure'. It's simply depopulation.
Example of the inherent dangers we all now face if we choose to keep flying;
"There have been many tragedies this year. Phil Thomas, a young graduate of the Cadiz, Spain, flight training academy, fell ill and died suddenly in April. There were five pilot incapacitations in March including a British Airways pilot who collapsed and died in Cairo, Egypt not long before he was due to fly."
We can either take a rushed course on 'How to pilot a Boing 737' or hope they start to use a PILOT, a Co-Pilot and a SPARE pilot!
All gullible 'patients' that didn't think before participating in an EXPERIMENT, are now all GENETICALLY MODIFIED as was factually covered up by Pfizer and other unscrupulous deadly injection makers.
You should never have allowed them to experiment (Pfuck) with the human body and expect it to get better! It's simply inviting a shorter Life Expectancy or a sudden 'inexplicable' early death.
Mick from Hooe (UK) Unjabbed to live longer
Whoa! Thanks for this post and the in-depth analysis. Thanks to Sasha for restacking your article. Just subscribed and looking forward to following the work
Had followed her on Facebook early in trying to get a balanced view but had to stop due to the comments section being to hardcore pro vaccine for me. Had a look recently and the number of comments has dropped dramatically with most remaining talking about how luckily they are to have had 6 shots and only had Covid 5 times🤦♀️ I had noticed 6mths back that the comments had started to turn against her views. She joined Substack early on and might have moved most followers over to maintain the bubble
Sasha Latypova already lambasted this faker as well:
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/journalissimus-maximus
All to be expected. We live on Prison Planet
Thanks for investigating this. Check out my takedown of npc substacker Lt Col Alexander Vindman: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/alexander-vindman-cringeman-cringestack-kgb
Hi D.B,
I concur and agree, it is sinister and bordering on fraudulent the manipulation you so succinctly and factually report on with regard the apparent coercive actions taken by publishers and Content Providers, in this example and sadly, Substack, an enterprising Start up and relative newbie in the Soc Media space.
I guess however, giving what is known about these Companies, is that they are in the main, small, timid, lack guts, a spine, ethics and adherence to journalistic ethos, convention and standards that defined what once stood proud as a wonderful and great profession.
The fall from the elevated status of purveyors of truth, of investigating and following the Story, to its natural conclusion, in other words, allowing the facts to both guide and to lead vis a viz, the now ridiculous and so oft engaged trait of merely repeating the mantra, the talking points, the narrative that has been in so many cases pre determined and then foisted upon the News Organisations that range from the Mainstream News Media Services, Radio, Print, Television, Movies, Documentary’s and all of the new forms of Social Media that we have become used to.
It takes only the slightest threat to be intimated during a visit, for people from across all demographics to recoil, to sh.t themselves literally, at the oft stated and or insinuated risks that will be likely to befall the targeted party. These risks and or threat of risk, of harm, injury, blackmail, death, need only be lightly or mentioned with subtlety during a regular conversation to ensure the desired outcome.
However and since the elites were compelled to force the pace on implanting and rolling out their turgid and truly despotic globalist agenda, an agenda heavily predicate on Control, them over you, me, your family, friends, with the stated objective of ultimately our owning absolutely nothing, nada, zip, zero, the big donut, that we own zero, but that we will all, in owning nothing, having our property rights disestablished, our property given up, handed over in exchange for ushering in an authoritative regime and means of government that will from its inception maintain public and civil order, law and justice (We know this system, one that applies standards of Law and Order for the so called elites and which is so different to the Law and Justice system that will undoubtedly be applied to ourselves, we see evidence of such in many jurisdictions across the World, already Canada, U.S, U.K, Western Europe)
This introduction of a dual interpretation of Laws, Justice, of the Globalist Agenda, the elites envisage will be ushered in readily on the back of the chaos and mayhem, the insecurity they are to unleash upon us, promising us authority, oh and an income for doing nothing, an income that is subsistence at best, conditional and with the caveat we relinquish property rights, in other words we own as stated, nothing, but, you will be happy as you are asset less, eating bugs, the finest cuts, fruits, vegetables, wines etc… reserved for the elites, those who will Lord it over us, our masters in other words.
In order to usher in this evil, this vile Dystopian agenda they need first and foremost to control the narrative over every aspect of our lives, that includes so many of the Social Media publications and publishers, outlets such as and that include the likes of Substack.
I; addition the age old trope of intimidation, threat, etc… Monies are used as a last resort, positions taken in fledgling start ups such as Substack, the trade off for such largesse, doing as your told, when your told, such as not accepting material, declining to publish, stacking figures, using fake accounts, introducing bots etc… in essence selling your soul in exchange for short term financial reward.
Instead of declining, challenging, pushing back, giving and raising the middle finger, simply saying what needs said, sod off, I’m not for sale, nor are my staff, or the outlet I own, but as we know, sadly everyone has a price, a break point that once reached they simply cave, sad when you consider how insidious this has become, how such behavioural traits from those in authority, the monied, has corrupted Academia, our political classes, elected and the appointed, the permanent Administrative State, all areas it seems of public life, Law and Order, justice, policing, our Corporates, our Universities some of our Churches, literally everything a functioning society requires to survive and to exist has been corrupted by this odious behaviour.
In order to resist we must stand tall, steadfast, ramrod straight, be assured as to our individual, community and national moral values, we must simply say no, turn the lobbyists away, show them the door, equally give and afford no time to the Think Tanks, Councils, Foundations and other NGO’s, who themselves foment and enable so much of what has led to this decline, show them the door, don’t return nor take their calls.
If however you are engaged in, involved with this sordid corrupt activity, know we have awakened, we know what your about, we will identify you, giving no quarter, publicising you, your role, your organisation and the impact of activity upon us all, upon us individually, as families, as a community, as a nation, you will be called out and ultimately it you, those who foment and enable this behaviour, the destruction of all we hold dear who will be cancelled, persecuted, called out and rightly so…
The tables will be turned, just as Bud, Disney, Netflix and so many others have found out, Billions being wiped from value… for that is our ultimate strength, hence you either stay true or lose… a lot is at stake, hence manipulation such as highlighted by DB this article will be short lived, pyrrhic victories at best, whilst those writers of class will be sustained and enjoy longevity… est to you all from New Zealand, Kia Kaha stand firm…