Shit. He deserves a 40 year sentence if not life.
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The Connecticut Supreme Court has denied Alex Jones’s appeal, upholding our more than $1 billion dollar verdict against him and his companies on behalf of Sandy Hook families and a first responder. Good day for justice. Bad day for Alex Jones.
https://www.reddit.com/r/KnowledgeFight/s/LuEL1TfwjI
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A year after leaving Substack in early 2024, newsletter writers are making more money peddling their words on other platforms.
Across the board, writers such as Marisa Kabas, Luke O’Neil, Jonathan M. Katz and Ryan Broderick — all of whom exited Substack in early 2024 following the publication of an open letter in December 2023 decrying the presence of politically extreme voices on the platform — told Digiday that they are receiving a higher share of subscription revenue after making the switch from Substack to rival newsletter services such as Ghost and Beehiiv.
Broderick, for example, estimated that revenue for his newsletter Garbage Day had increased by roughly 20 to 25 percent year over year since he left Substack in January 2024, though he didn’t provide exact figures.
“The amount I was making at Substack was not enough to hire a full-time employee,” Broderick said. “Last month, I just hired Adam Bumas, my head of research, full time.”
Since leaving Substack, some writers’ subscriber counts have plateaued over the past year, while others have risen — but in both cases, creators said that their share of revenue has increased because Ghost and Beehiiv charge creators flat monthly rates that scale based on their subscriber counts, rather than Substack’s 10 percent cut of all transaction fees.
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It would be great to see Heather Cox Richardson make such a switch. Since, last I heard, she’s the most subscribed Substack writer, it’d be huge news!
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As I thought, once creators get established in the newsletter game, there’s no reason to stay on a platform that takes a large cut for little in return.
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I think that’s probably why all of these platforms are trying to find something to make them “sticky”, be it additional community features, the ability for creators (not readers) to collaborate and participate on each other’s works, showing visible growth through the “network effects” of readers from other creators finding you through promotion on other content, etc. etc. They’re desperate to show their value beyond a simple newsletter platform.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the next step is a revshare agreement for top creators from the advertising side.
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One wonders if Oliver is getting pressure from the network to tone his stuff down?
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I don’t wonder that, I’m quite convinced of it. Anyone working for corporate media has to consent to the largely unwritten rules of “manufactured consent.” We’ve just recently seen what happens to those who don’t, or who even seem like at some point they won’t.
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Some nuance, at least:
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Bail would be a bad idea, because he’s already shown that he doesn’t have much regard for laws telling him not to go somewhere, so could be expected to leave the country immediately.
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Not surprising but strange that people fall for this again.
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