Spencer Ackerman

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Spencer Ackerman
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Spencer Ackerman

Spencer Ackerman, a columnist for The Nation magazine, is a Pulitzer Prize and National Magazine Award winning reporter. His book, Reign of Terror: How The 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump, won a 2022 American Book Award. He writes a newsletter, Forever Wars, that left Substack in 2022. 

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Platform collapse! Nazis on Substack and why content moderation matters at the front lines of digital publishing

Arikia Millikan, Spencer Ackerman, Cathy Bijur

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Who cares if Nazis are publishing on the same platform as award-winning journalists? The situation at Substack has prompted creators everywhere to question how they can grow and sustain their own independent publishing businesses without contributing to the proliferation of hate speech.
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