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Who owns Substack? - by William A. Finnegan

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"The only platform not owned by billionaires?"

I see, over and over, this rallying cry on Substack: “The only platform not owned by billionaires.” I get the idea. With Trump running around like Hitler, and with the media enabling his every move, people are scrambling for an outlet of information that isn’t entirely in the tank for new regime. There were a couple of ideas, however, that came to mind. Facebook, TikTok, Twitter (back before it became the gathering ground for the Hitler Youth brigade), Instagram, and others, there was a time when they weren’t owned by “billionaires,” either. There was a time when Amazon, for example, was…

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