{
  "platform": "Substack",
  "url": "https://substack.com",
  "checked": "2026-10-27",
  "domains": ["substack.com"],
  "browser_agent": { "status": "unclear", "reason": "No explicit automation rule; accounts engaged in 'artificial or inauthentic activity on community surfaces' may be removed." },
  "ai_posting": { "status": "unclear", "reason": "Content guidelines don't regulate AI-written posts in general (only AI-generated intimate images and depictions of minors, both prohibited); no disclosure rule found." },
  "policies": [
    { "topic": "ai_content", "status": "unclear", "conditions": "No general rule on AI-written publications; AI-generated non-consensual intimate images and sexual depictions of minors are prohibited.", "quote": "AI-generated or otherwise synthetic", "source": "https://substack.com/content", "source_updated": "2026-09-29" },
    { "topic": "promotion", "status": "prohibited", "conditions": "Spam in comments, threads and email replies, and publications created for spamming or phishing, are prohibited.", "quote": "you may not create publications for spamming or phishing purposes.", "source": "https://substack.com/content", "source_updated": "2026-09-29" },
    { "topic": "automation", "status": "unclear", "conditions": "No explicit bot/automation rule; inauthentic activity on community surfaces can lead to removal.", "quote": "accounts engaged in artificial or inauthentic activity on community surfaces", "source": "https://substack.com/content", "source_updated": "2026-09-29" },
    { "topic": "account_rules", "status": "prohibited", "conditions": "No impersonation of a person, brand or organisation.", "quote": "We don't allow impersonation, which includes posing as another person, brand, or organization.", "source": "https://substack.com/content", "source_updated": "2026-09-29" }
  ],
  "observed": [
    { "date": "2026-10-27", "note": "Content guidelines readable by plain HTTP fetch." }
  ]
}