HackerNoon Doesn’t Respect Writers

Mason Pelt
3 min readMay 2, 2023

Today HackerNoon deleted not only my profile, and every article I’ve published on the site; they also deleted every article that referenced me. The reason for the erasure is a dispute about canonicalization for syndicated content. It’s as dumb and disrespectful to writers as it sounds.

I syndicated multiple stories to HackerNoon with a correct (according to Google) canonical URL to the original content…

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