Substack couldn’t answer easy questions about moderating extremist content two years ago, and now it’s promoted a ...

After Substack shocked an unknown number of users by sending a push notification on Monday to check out a Nazi blog featuring ...

Nazis’ presence on Substack has only grown. “Sending out Nazi push alerts may not have been the company’s goal,” write Marisa Kabas and Jonathan Katz, the latter of whom sounded the initial alarm in ...

One reason social users were quick to pounce on the latest incident: It provides a symbolic callback to Substack's 2023 Nazi ...

User Mag, a newsletter on Substack started by Taylor Lorenz, first reported that a push alert for the publication “was sent ...

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However, he believes the platform will continue to tolerate such content, reminding us of its failure to follow “limited community guidelines” in 2024. During that time, a white supremacist blog urged ...

With the abundance of destructive and harmful content, it’s about time we saw regulatory efforts to address the problem.

That feels a whole lot more simple: Substack is likely making money from these Nazi blogs, some of which are monetized and have paying subscribers, of which Substack takes a 10% cut. That's one of the ...

In December 2023, The Atlantic reported that it had seen a handful of Nazi-affiliated or white supremacist blogs on the platform, some of them with paying subscribers. Substack's founder, Hamish ...