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Hello, cherished TechCrunch readers. We know your time is precious, so beginning next week, we’re going to make it a lot easier for you to read our best stuff. For starters, we’re adding a morning newsletter, with the startup and venture and broader tech news we think you want to be tracking more closely. The newsletter – TechCrunch AM – is being authored by TC veteran Alex Wilhelm, who many of you already know and about whom we think pretty highly. Alex helps to keep work around TechCrunch fun and interesting; he’s…

Newsletter platform Substack has removed "some" pro-Nazi publications from its platform following weeks of pressure over its content moderation rules.The takedowns include five newsletters flagged to the company , which was first to report the news.The move comes amid growing pressure on the newsletter company after it repeatedly declined to remove publications promoting white nationalist and pro-Nazi views. In November, The Atlantic that it found “scores of white-supremacist, neo-Confederate, and explicitly Nazi…

It’s funny how naive smart people can be sometimes. Take the founders of Substack, a US-based online platform that enables writers to send digital newsletters directly to subscribers. It also enables them to earn money from their writing if they wish to, though as far as I can see, most don’t.I can personally testify to its merits. I’ve been a blogger for ever, but when Covid-19 arrived, I decided to also publish my blog as a free daily newsletter and started to look around for a way of doing that. Substack fitted the…

Since 1971, steel demand has tripled, aluminum demand has increased by six, and cement demand has increased nearly seven times. All this is a growing climate concern, because making, using, and disposing of certain materials can generate massive amounts of emissions. Adding it all up, global material production accounts for something like a quarter of global greenhouse-gas emissions today.  I’ve always found this concept fascinating. After all, cement sidewalks aren’t sitting around spewing carbon dioxide into the air…

Welcome back to The Interchange, where we take a look at the hottest fintech news of the previous week. If you want to receive The Interchange directly in your inbox every Sunday, head here to sign up!  What a year This is the last edition of The Interchange for 2023 — it’s hard to believe that the year is almost over. It was an eventful 12 months, even if funding was down. We saw a bunch of M&A activity (read about it here, here, here and here), BNPL made a comeback (sort of), new fintech-focused venture firm…

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…

WhatsApp wants to take its functionality to a whole new level with Newsletters. The Meta-owned messaging app was already spotted developing a Newsletter feature, and now we can have a quick look into how the feature looks in the final version.WABetaInfo reports that WhatsApp has started testing its Newsletters feature in the beta v2.23.5.8 on Android. The feature works like conventional newsletters, and users can opt for their favorite channel’s broadcasts. This could be a great feature for small businesses, companies,…

WhatsApp, the messaging platform owned by Meta, is developing a new feature that will allow private newsletters to be sent, serving as a one-to-many tool for…

You might not have to send messages to a group chat to keep your WhatsApp friends updated. WABetaInfo has discovered that code in a recent WhatApp beta for Android includes references to an unannounced "Newsletter" feature. While its exact workings aren't clear, it's a private space in the Status tab that lets you share content with many followers. Names and other contact details are hidden by default. We've asked WhatsApp parent company Meta for comment. This is the first beta to mention the Newsletter feature, so it may…

Twitter is pulling employees off of working on major consumer-facing features like audio Spaces, communities, and newsletters and instead plans to refocus their efforts on user growth and personalization, according to Bloomberg. The changes come as a pending buyout by Elon Musk is already casting a shadow on every move the company makes — and follows just weeks after Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announced a pause on most hiring and fired both the company’s consumer product leader Kayvon Beykpour and the leader on the…