The fact that Substack is an American company headquartered in San Francisco adds to the absurdity of this situation. However, this does not prevent it from working with Russian and openly pro-Kremlin authors who freely publish Russian propaganda on the platform.
The top publications and authors on Substack from Russia include English-language posts from accounts that promote anti-Ukrainian messages to Western audiences.
In particular, from the Kremlin "expert" Mark Sleboda, who spreads narratives about Ukraine's inevitable defeat.
The platform itself has not announced any suspension of operations in Russia and continues to operate there.
Therefore, we can hardly expect an adequate response from Substack to moderate and remove Russian propaganda. We sent a media request to Substack for a commentary, but did not receive one at the time of publication. We will update the news as soon as the commentary is available.