Lawfare Enters the Substack Discourse
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Arbiters of Truth, Lawfare’s miniseries on disinformation and misinformation, Quinta Jurecic sat down with Lawfare’s deputy managing editor Jacob Schulz, and Jordan Schneider, host of the ChinaTalk podcast, to talk about Substack. The newsletter service is the new cool thing in the journalism world—and, like any newly popular online service, it is already running into questions around content moderation.
Jacob wrote about Substack’s content moderation policy earlier this month, and Jordan uses Substack to send out his ChinaTalk newsletter, so he filled us in on the platform’s nuts and bolts. Why is Substack so popular right now, anyway? Does it help writers step outside the unhealthy dynamics that help spread disinformation and discontent on social media, or does it just play into those dynamics further? And what might the platform’s content moderation policies leave to be desired?
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| 1:14.5 | to the algorithm and thus the argument goes that since we don't rely on controversies |
| 1:21.0 | and flare ups to get traffic like Facebook or like Twitter does, there's this baseline |
| 1:25.5 | atmosphere that's set where things are likely to be less inflammatory, right? |
| 1:28.8 | It is the implication and I'd argue that that's probably not true given that sub-stack |
| 1:33.9 | writers are often completely beholden to Twitter traffic to grow their audience and sub-stack |
| 1:39.5 | as a brand has also benefited enormously from big Twitter controversy. |
| 1:45.2 | I'm Quintedurusic and this is the Lafere podcast February 4th, 2021. |
| 1:53.0 | We're bringing you another episode of Arbiter's of Truth. |
| 1:56.0 | Lafere's mini-series on disinformation and misinformation. |
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