The Voice Of A Micro-Generation: Anne Helen Petersen
In a world of one-liners, memes and hot takes, it can be challenging to capture an audience’s attention while explaining an appropriate amount of nuance and context.
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In a world of one-liners, memes and hot takes, it can be challenging to capture an audience’s attention while explaining an appropriate amount of nuance and context.
The response came weeks after The Atlantic found that at least 16 Substack newsletters had "overt Nazi symbols" in their logos or graphics, and that white supremacists had been allowed to publish on, and profit from, the platform.
Responding to criticism of its hands-off approach to content moderation, the company said it would not ban Nazi symbols or extremist rhetoric so long as newsletter writers do not incite violence.
The refusal to remove or demonetize extremist blogs means Substack is likely making money from them. It should stop.
Substack, the online platform that provides publishing and monetization tools for authors and writers, is facing pushback from a group of users who say it is giving a platform to Nazis and white supremacists. “From our perspective as Substack publishers, it is unfathomable that someone with a swastika avatar, who writes about ‘The Jewish question’…