Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content

[ad_1] I just want to make it clear that we don’t like Nazis either—we wish no-one held those views. But some people do hold those and other extreme views. Given…

‘Substack has a Nazi problem’: Kiwi entrepreneur’s $1.1b media tech business in spotlight; Stuff’s Circuit breaker

[ad_1] Hamish McKenzie, co-founder of Substack. Photo / Brett Phibbs As a freelance writer, Hamish McKenzie used to scrabble together income based on a going rate of 40 cents a…

Substack now lets you follow writers before subscribing to them

[ad_1] Substack now lets you follow writers, offering a way for you to keep tabs on what a writer is doing without having to subscribe to their newsletter. When you…

Substack co-founder says “we don’t like or condone bigotry,” doesn’t explain how it will be moderated on Substack Notes

[ad_1] “Last week, we caught some heat after Chris didn’t accept the terms of a question from a podcast interviewer about how Substack will handle bigoted speech on Notes,” McKenzie…

Elon Musk tweets, then deletes DMs from Matt Taibbi over his Substack snit

[ad_1] Elon Musk and one of his “Twitter Files” writers, Matt Taibbi, don’t seem to be on great terms right now, and that situation probably isn’t getting any better after…

Substack CEO pushes back at Elon, says Twitter situation is “very frustrating”

[ad_1] Musk sort-of explained his decision in a reply this week by claiming that Substack was “trying to download a massive portion of the Twitter database to bootstrap their Twitter…

One of Elon’s handpicked “Twitter Files” writers quits Twitter over its Substack restrictions

[ad_1] Matt Taibbi has announced that he’s leaving Twitter amid the company’s ongoing spat with newsletter platform Substack. If Taibbi’s name doesn’t immediately ring a bell, perhaps the phrase “Twitter…

Twitter is now marking Substack links as unsafe

[ad_1] Twitter has started marking links to Substack as unsafe. If you click on a link on Twitter with substack.com in the URL, Twitter will show a separate notice warning…

Twitter cuts off Substack embeds and starts suspending bots

[ad_1] Writers trying to embed tweets in their Substack stories are in for a rude surprise: after pasting a link to the site, a message pops up saying that “Twitter…