Around the same time it created its own problems with Google by having a malware-infested website to which that Google rightly refused to direct its search traffic, WorldNetDaily was having issues with another vendor who wanted nothing to do with it. An anonymously written Sept. 2 article detailed:
One day after WND got word that the blocking of its website by Google had been resolved, employees of the news site woke up to find they no longer could communicate through the company’s Slack instant-messaging account.
There’s been no response from Slack. The only communication is a web page stating, “This workspace has been suspended.”
In June, a major non-profit that opposes illegal immigration had its Slack account canceled.
The group Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR, was banned, according to a Slack spokesman, because it violated the tech company’s policy forbidding incitement of hatred or violence and that the nonprofit is “affiliated with a known hate group.”
“When we learn of an organization using Slack for illegal, harmful or other prohibited purposes, we conduct an investigation and take appropriate action in accordance with our policy,” the spokesman told the Washington Free Beacon in June.
WND failed to mention that Slack, as a private business operating in a free-market economy, has every right to decline to do business with anyone it chooses for any reason — particularly if it has declared that it won’t do business with companies involved in “illegal, harmful or other prohibited purposes.” Given WND’s undeniable reputation for publishing misinformation and conspiracy theories and spreading hate, that seems reason enough for Slack to cease doing business with WND.
Indeed, the misinformation continued in this very article: “FAIR is listed by the notoriously biased, left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group, as is WND.” WND loves to make this claim about itself — but it’s not true.
WND hasn’t referenced the Slack suspension again after this article, so we assume it’s still in force and that WND has found an alternate way of communicating with its employees.