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Substack is back in the news lately, though this time it’s not for looming money problems. It’s for worse problems—Nazi problems. At the end of November, The Atlantic published a piece by writer Jonathan Katz titled simply, “Substack has a Nazi problem.” His argument was essentially that the newsletter-publishing platform hosts, so therefore profits from, a larger number of white-supremacy newsletters than he—and for that matter, most regular readers—probably ever expected.At least 16 of the newsletters that I reviewed…

Matt Taibbi, one of the “Twitter Files” reporters selected by Elon Musk himself, no longer tweets. Instead, the journalist once-hell bent on holding Wall Street to task, now “truths” on Donald Trump-affiliated social platform, Truth Social.Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl TweetIn the fallout of Elon Musk’s alleged suppression of Substack links on Twitter, the Twitter Files reporter implied his departure from Musk’s platform in an April 7 post. “I’m obviously staying at Substack, and will be moving to Substack Notes next…

If you’re a regular Twitter Circles user, you should probably stop posting things you wouldn’t want seen by the wider public. Numerous tweeters are reporting that their supposedly private Twitter Circle posts are accessible to the whole Twittersphere, letting their more private thoughts or pics loose on the wider community. Twitter Verification is a Hot MessSince at least this past weekend, multiple Twitter users have reported strangers being able to read and even like their private tweets. Twitter Circles was first…

Matt Taibbi, an independent journalist and author famous for releasing Twitter Files, quit the microblogging platform after he claimed that it blocked access to embedding tweets in posts on the online publishing platform SubstackTwitter also won’t allow any retweets, likes, or engagement with posts that contained links to Substack articles, Taibbi claimed.“It turns out Twitter is upset about the new Substack Notes feature, which they see as a hostile rival,” Taibbi wrote in a Substack post he titled “The Craziest Friday…

Twitter has restricted access to embedding tweets in posts on online publishing platform Substack, leaving thousands of users in a limbo.Twitter has restricted promotion and visibility for tweets with links to Substack posts -- a move that has not gone well with people."We're disappointed that Twitter has chosen to restrict writers' ability to share their work. Writers deserve the freedom to share links to Substack or anywhere else," said Chris Best, Hamish McKenzie and Jairaj Seth, the founders of Substack."This abrupt…