Perpetual #grifter #ShaunKing sent me the email below last night via #Substack. Because I've been busy doing other things and haven't gotten around to unsubscribing, he has so far sent me four additional messages today.
I _certainly_ did not subscribe to his Substack. As if I would ever!
It is, of course, against Substack's rules to subscribe people to a Substack without their consent.
#spam
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The email mentions, "We are now the #2 trending news platform on all of Substack." Presumably that's because he's goosing his numbers by adding people without their consent. That's quite a grift he's got going!
His "As-Salaam-Alaikum" at the top of the email caused me to dig a bit and learn that he King supposedly converted to Islam last year.
I am as sure as this article is <https://unherd.com/newsroom/is-shaun-kings-islam-conversion-a-grift/> that that's just another grift.
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Is Shaun King’s Islam conversion a grift?

Shaun King has found a new demographic to swindle: Muslims. The Black Lives Matter activist recently declared that he, along with his wife, converted — or “reverted” as Muslims often put it — to Islam on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan, under the guidance of popular Palestinian-American imam Omar Suleiman. After [...]Read More...

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I have, of course, complained to Substack using their web complaint form. They are a shitty company but if enough people complain they sometimes do something about stuff like this.
I will also, of course, unsubscribe, and report each of the messages King sent me as spam through SpamCop.
Ugh, just ugh.
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Oh, wow, the scale of King's current grift is even larger than I'd realized. He didn't just subscribe me against my will to one Substack newsletter. He's running seven different newsletters/podcasts and he subscribed me to all of them.
What an asshole.
@jik it’s wild that Substack encourages such spammy behavior
@jonathankoren I wouldn't say they encourage it exactly, but the question remains whether they will do something substantive about it.
My guess is that if King brings in a lot of revenue for them (Substack takes 10% of subscription revenue), they'll give him a slap on the wrist, and if he doesn't and he pissed off enough people subscribed without their permission, they'll do something about it.