You know it's like at every man of a certain age all he wants to do is just sit on the

couch and watch the history channel and read about how the Americans fought World War II and like

watching my own dad do this growing up I thought oh that's like that like, that's so nice, you know?

How nice that that story ended so positively.

And like, he fast forward to 2024.

It's like, is World War II over?

No, we're still fighting it out in the comments section.

Yep. And this is Hard Fork. This week, how Substacks Nazi Problem left me with a hard question of my own.

Then the Wall Street Journal's Kirsten Grind joins us to talk about her reporting on Elon Musk's drug use. And how AI helped researchers discover a new class of

antibiotics. It's a drug show. So Casey on this show we sometimes answer hard questions from our

listeners about ethical dilemmas that they are dealing with in their lives and

this week you have actually been dealing with your own very hard question

and it's about sub-stack and Nazis and the future of platformer your newsletter business and so I want to talk about that this week and I want to just make clear that we're not just talking about this because this is a thing that has happened to you, but I think it really is sort of a microcosm for some of these larger debates that we cover on this

show about free speech and content moderation and the role of internet platforms in policing

the public square.

Well I want to talk about Elon Musk Drug Use,

but I'm open to any questions you have not me.

Okay.

And I think we should just also acknowledge

that this is going to feel a little weird

because even though we are both

journalists who have covered content moderation by big tech platforms and

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