Yesterday I highlighted something Jesse Singal had pointed out about a site called Platformer which, until yesterday, was hosted on Substack. Platformer is a tech journalism site which decided to deplatform itself because of Substack’s alleged Nazi problem. I won’t rehash the whole thing, you can read it here. The gist is that Platformer’s own investigation into the problem turned up a grand total of six pro-Nazi sites, none of which were earning a dime from subscribers on Substack. Rather than reveal that rather pitiful evidence to readers, Platformer hid the actual numbers involved to make the problem sounds worse than it was.
But as I mentioned yesterday, the real start of the moral panic over Substack’s Nazi problem was a piece published by the Atlantic titled “Substack Has a Nazi Problem” by Jonathan Katz. Katz claimed to have identified 16 pro-Nazi sites on a…
