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"We’re doing everything we can to support publishers that produce real journalism — original, fact-based and quality reporting — just as we have for the past 15 years," wrote our managing editor @csullivan in his latest blogpost. Learn more about our work to support indie and worker-owned […]
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a U.S. civil rights icon, dies at age 84.
@abc reports: "Jackson ran for president twice, both times as a Democrat, placing third for the party's nomination in 1984 and second in 1988."
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#JesseJackson #CivilRights #News #USPolitics #History
Coyote Media, a worker-owned outlet based in the Bay Area, was approached by Luke Nover, a freelancer with a great story idea. Then editor Soleil Ho noticed something iffy about his social security number, began asking questions, and "Nover" — likely the product of a scammer with ChatGPT — […]
As the news industry implodes, @Flipboard is doing everything we can to help independent media and journalists who are starting their own publications. Here's my ode to indy journalism, perfect for Valentine's Day ... or Galentine's ;) […]
Shoutout to some of these publishers in the Fediverse:
@AfroLA
@aftermath.site
@allrisenews
@TheAnkler
@thebarbedwiretexas
@bolts
@COYOTEMedia
@Defector
@51stNews
@404mediaco
@news
@TheMargin_US
@oliverdarcy
@TPM
@TheConversationUS
@ProPublica
@marshallproj
@heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
As the news industry implodes, @Flipboard is doing everything we can to help independent media and journalists who are starting their own publications. Here's my ode to indy journalism, perfect for Valentine's Day ... or Galentine's ;) […]
Brothers of Renee Good, woman killed by immigration officer in Minneapolis, call for action in Congress.
From @AssociatedPress: "Luke Ganger, speaking of the 'deep distress' the family felt at losing their sister in 'such a violent and unnecessary way,' didn’t specify what they wanted from […]
RE: https://flipboard.social/@NewsDesk/115956960522651626
These videos are very disturbing to watch, but one also feels the need to bear witness.
The United States experienced negative net migration for the first time in 50 years in 2025, mostly due to a drop in entries. "We estimate net flows of -295,000 to -10,000 for the year," a study by the Brookings Institution states, going on to say that continued negative net migration is likely […]
RE: https://flipboard.social/@NewsDesk/115894539532602421
Important reporting.
"In automation theory, a 'centaur' is a person who is assisted by a machine. You're a human head being carried around on a tireless robot body. Driving a car makes you a centaur, and so does using autocomplete. And obviously, a reverse centaur is a machine head on a human body, a person who is […]
RE: https://toot.io/@MediaOnMastodon/115691147939633040
Everyone on open social web should be grateful for #flipboard and them being a good actor for the open social web.
The amount of work @Flipboard has done to make Mastodon awesome for news from all around the world is incredible.
Beautiful fluffy snow in Sunnyside, Queens
#silentsunday
Reddy hanging out on #caturday #catsofmastodon
Birth rates all over the world are falling. Why are so many Americans worried about the impact of that on their society? @19thnews carried out a survey to find out, and spoke to experts about how fear of falling birth rates is related to MAGA, anti-immigration policies and more […]
RE: https://flipboard.social/@surf/115584100375782527
Psst, there's a new version of Surf and it's awesome!
Today, for Trans Day of Remembrance,
@LGBTQNation
has put together this Flipboard Storyboard. "Now more than ever, commemorating the Trans Day of Remembrance is a revolutionary act of solidarity that gives our community a memorial to honor our fallen, reflect on what we’ve endured, and advocate […]
RE: https://mastodon.social/@mellifluousbox/115569615176946969
Congrats to @Gargron, @mellifluousbox and the whole team for advancing the Mastodon org to ensure it will continue to ship great work in the years ahead while remaining funded by the people for the people.
Rev. Michael Woolf, senior minister of Lake Street Church of Evanston, was shot in the leg with a pepper ball by state police while protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility, Illinois. He writes for Religion News Service about why he continues to show up at Broadview, the atmosphere at […]
Zohran Mamdani majored in Africana Studies at Bowdoin College in Maine, at the time Peter Coviello taught the subject there, though he can't remember if New York City's Mayor-elect was his student or not. For LitHub, he explains how he was approached by a New York Times reporter to speak about […]
In 2006, the late Dick Cheney accidentally shot his pal Harry Whittington in the face while in Texas. The following year, Texas Monthly produced its award-winning "Bum Steers" cover, which was inspired by National Lampoon and featured a photo illustration of Cheney pointing a gun toward the […]
In January, Donald Trump signed an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico, and did his best to strong-arm newsrooms into using its new moniker, the Gulf of America. Nine months, and many executive orders later, how is it going? Nieman Lab's Joshua Benton says the new name hasn't stuck in […]
15 years in and we're just getting started! Flipboard's CEO
@mike spoke with @forbes's Andy Meek about being digital survivors, @surf, and our role in the future of publishing […]
greg scallan from flipboard talking ATProto at IETF
@greg of @Flipboard talking ATProto at #IETF124!
AI slop is threatening journalism by churning out clickbaity versions of original stories, capturing web traffic, and destroying readers' trust in media. NiemanLab's Ben Paviour takes a look at how it's proliferating, with the help of Google.
https://flip.it/6VypfN
#ArtificialIntelligence #AI […]
Missed @ben's keynote at this year's @fediforum? Here's the full transcript. "The opportunity right now isn't to build a better Twitter or to provide a nice place for people who care about Linux to chat: it's to build infrastructure that vulnerable people can actually use to organize, to […]