Substack recruited me and gave me an advance based on my unpaid newsletter subscribers and my open rate. They had an idea of what my subscriber income would be, and they offered significantly less. In other words: people who take the advances make significantly less money
This is something that is absolutely getting lost in this conversation — which is a very important one. Substack has bungled the messaging at every turn. They missed an opportunity to come down very clearly on hate speech on the platform.
They have also missed an opportunity to highlight all of the people they've given money to who are not Greenwald et. al. *through their public fellowship programs.* This is not private information. It is all right here:
on.substack.com/p/introducing-…
on.substack.com/p/introducing-…
I am going to continue to pressure Substack to do better on all of these fronts, from recruitment to hate speech and anti-trans rhetoric in particular. But if you keep focusing *exclusively* on these dudes you're eclipsing all of the other work.
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