Facebook announces Bulletin, a newsletter platform to take on Substack

Another day, another product category Facebook wants to dip its toes in. Today Facebook announced Bulletin, a newsletter product built to take on platforms like Substack and Twitter’s Revue. Bulletin will allow writers to post free and paid newsletters and podcasts. Some benefits will of course be behind a paywall, like badges and subscriber-only Facebook groups. Transactions are handled via Facebook Pay, naturally. The platform won’t be open to the public at launch, but Facebook has summoned a bevy of writers on different topics for Bulletin’s launch, although according to an earlier report by Recode, the company is trying to avoid more…

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