At its 10% cut, Substack’s annualized run rate would work out to $21.6 million. Substack is on a comfortable run rate that should provide it with lots of high-margin revenue to pay its staff.

The growing media platform Substack is solidly liberal, with 81 of the 100 top-selling titles in the U.S. Politics category being "left-leaning or progressive," according to researcher Kyle Tharp ...

Substack Surges Past 5M Paid Subscriptions, Thanks to Video and Trump (Exclusive) Substack co-founder Hamish McKenzie says that creators jumping ship from 'mainstream media' like Jim Acosta, Joy ...

Updated at 8:40 p.m. ET on January 11, 2024 The newsletter-hosting site Substack advertises itself as the last, best hope for civility on the internet—and aspires to a bigger role in politics in ...

Platformer, which also did not name the publications, reported that they had endorsed “Nazi ideology.” Substack, founded in 2017, has grown in influence as a hub for independent writers online.

Substack now finds itself in the middle of a crisis. In late November, an investigation in The Atlantic turned up “scores of white-supremacist, neo-Confederate, and explicitly Nazi newsletters ...

Substack responded to Substackers Against Nazis to say that it does not support Nazi content but will continue to allow it on the platform as long as it doesn’t advocate for violence.

In a post on Substack, he said that a better approach to content moderation was “to take things into your own hands.” “Be an adult,” he wrote. “Block people.” ...