This month has been a heck of a year

A news roundup edition of hate mail from your tired, but dedicated, hate mail editors.

Editor’s Note: We’re freaking tired. It may seem like we have been saying that a lot lately, but it’s true. This issue of hatemail will be a brief collection of the stuff that’s been stirring us up.

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Fallout from the OnlyFans payment scandal

• Reversing A Planned Ban, OnlyFans Will Allow Pornography On Its Site After All

• OnlyFans Will Ban Pornography Starting in October, Citing Need to Comply With Financial Partners

• OnlyFans CEO Says Site Would ‘Absolutely’ Allow Porn Again, If Banks Agree to Pay Creators

• The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks | Jillian York

• OnlyFans has tons of users, but can't find investors

• OnlyFans Is Banning 'Sexually-Explicit Content' on Oct. 1

• OnlyFans: How it handles illegal sex videos

• OnlyFans Says It Won't Ban Sexually Explicit Content

• OnlyFans suspends proposed ban on sexually explicit content

• OnlyFans Decision to Ban and Un-Ban Porn Is About More Than Porn

• OnlyFans Creators React to Site’s Porn Ban With Anger, Confusion

• Why OnlyFans had second thoughts on banning sexually explicit content

• The payments mess that almost scared OnlyFans away from sex work

• Sex Workers Describe the Instability—and Necessity—of OnlyFans

Fight for Reproductive Rights

• TikTok Is Using Shrek Porn to Fight an Anti-Abortion Website

• TikToker Makes Script to Flood Texas Abortion 'Whistleblower' Site With Fake Info

Tragedy in Afghanistan

• Erik Prince selling flights out of Afghanistan for $6,500 per ticket, report says

• Opinion | Joe Biden's Critics Lost Afghanistan

Ethical Tech

• Facebook Said to Consider Forming an Election Commission

• A New Chip Cluster Will Make Massive AI Models Possible

• How Data Brokers Sell Access to the Backbone of the Internet

• U.S. Forgives $1.1 Billion in Debt for Former ITT Tech Students

• A new wave of Hacktivists is turning the surveillance state against itself

• San Francisco Sues Three Online Retailers for Selling ‘Ghost Guns’

Misinformation

• Caesars Entertainment Is Welcoming A QAnon Conference To Las Vegas

• Twitter thread from @oneunderscore__ on the origin of misinformation claiming ivermectin is a COVID treatment.