One of the related articles is from Sara Fischer / Axios, discussing a meeting between conservative media and business executives with Jimmy Finkelstein at Mar-a-Lago on January 3 about acquiring a 51% stake in The Messenger for $30M. Another article by Casey Newton / Platformer discusses Substack's desire to be seen as a pure infrastructure provider, similar to Cloudflare, but argues that Substack can't claim to be simple infrastructure while recommending content.
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