“Substack now finds itself in the middle of a crisis. In late November, an investigation in The Atlantic turned up “scores of white-supremacist, neo-Confederate, and explicitly Nazi newsletters on Substack.” Because the site takes a cut of subscription revenue, this meant that Substack was making money off extremists.” [efn_note]The Atlantic, Jacob Stern, January 12, 2024 – Substack Was a Ticking Time Bomb – The platform seeded its own content-moderation crisis.[/efn_note]
“At least 16 of the newsletters that I reviewed have overt Nazi symbols, including the swastika and the sonnenrad, in their logos or in prominent graphics. Andkon’s Reich Press, for example, calls itself “a National Socialist newsletter”; its logo shows Nazi banners on Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, and one recent post features a racist caricature of a Chinese person.” [efn_note]The Atlantic, Jonathan M. Katz, November 28, 2023 – Substack Has a Nazi Problem – The newsletter platform’s lax content moderation creates an opening for white nationalists eager to get their message out.[/efn_note]
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