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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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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 ...

Substack has industry-leading newsletter tools and a platform that independent writers flock to, but its recent content moderation missteps could prove costly. In late November, the Atlantic reported ...

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

Using the online alias "Dark Foreigner," an Ottawa man made hate propaganda videos and images for an international neo-Nazi organization to promote hatred against Jews and others, federal Crown ...