On a recent Wednesday afternoon, content creator, lawyer, and TikTok journalist Aaron Parnas sat with one of his closest friends, Sam Schmir, in Parnas’s living room. Until January, Schmir did digital strategy at the White House, and had texted earlier that it was a “slow news day” — a seemingly …
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Casey Anthony was acquitted in the 2008 murder of her two-year-old daughter, but the ordeal made her, as one Department of Corrections spokeswoman famously put it, “one of the most hated women in America.” This week, she joined TikTok and Substack, rebranding as a “legal advocate.” In her first TikTok, …
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A top newsletter at Substack is leaving the platform amid controversy over the company’s policies surroundingpro-Nazicontent. Platformer founder Casey Newton made the announcement on Thursday, writing that the publication “can no longer stay in good conscience.” The decision follows weeks of controversy over the issue. In December, Jonathan M. Katz …
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Substack said that it will remove some publications that support Nazis from its services after backlash over the company’s initial refusal to remove accounts that endorse Nazi ideology, Platformer reports. The company was adamant that the decision was not a reversal of it previous comments, per Platformer, but a reconsideration …
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