Geraldine McKelvie • The Guardian
The global publishing platform Substackis generating revenue from newsletters that promote virulent Nazi ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism, a Guardian investigation has found.
It is the proverbial Nazi bar. I’m glad more publications are talking about this. There are a number of us nobodies out here talking about it and it’s not making a dent in the business or convincing extremely great writers to leave the platform. Even Jewish writers like Robert Reich and Jennifer Rubin remain on the platform. I just don’t get it. It makes me wonder if they’re still using Space Karen’s X platform as well. I wouldn’t know, I’m not there.
Before all the Nazi kerfuffle I read there all the time. They support RSS so it was easy to point Stream at a writer and get their feed. I even subscribed to Michael Beschloss and considered others.
So why is it publications and writers love this platform so much they’ll go against everything they believe? Most of the folks I followed are for decency and democracy and rail against the Trump administration almost every day, but they turn a blind eye to the Nazis sitting at the bar next to them. In the end I’d bet it’s all about the money.
Encourage them to leave if you happen to stumble across this post.
Here are some of the amazing writers I’d love to see abandon the platform.
- The Contrarian - many writers
- The Bulwark - many writers
- Robert Reich
- Steve Beschloss
- Paul Krugman
- Heather Cox Richardson
- Michael McFaul
- Timothy Snyder
- Andrew Weissman
- Michael Moore
- Malcom Nance
- W. Kamau Bell