3 of the top 7 most-subscribed Substack writers are LGBT, while the most-subscribed writer is a woman who never had any involvement with a corporate media outlet.

Hard not to suspect that a decent chunk of the anger and resentment toward Substack is due to this disparity.

Every now and then it's worth stopping and remembering how completely stupid and unhinged (but dangerous) was the media hysteria generated for years around Russiagate.

The CIA told me that Russia invented a 24th Century super-sophisticated sonic weapon that allows them to roam the world injuring people's brains without detection and now I'm spreading this without the slightest evidence and demanding retaliation because I'm a journalist.

Se você capacitar o Google para censurar o YouTube e suas outras plataformas, eles nem sempre - ou normalmente - usarão esse poder da maneira que você gosta. O Google não existe para proteger o bem público ou os marginalizados.

Christopher Steele is responsible for one of the most sustained and harmful frauds and conspiracy theories perpetrated on the American people in years, yet US media continues to treat him as at least marginally credible because they're the ones who spread and ratified the fraud: