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#Midterms #USPolitics #News
10/29/2026, 2 engagements
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"If people don't vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it's not going to change anything."
Remembering Dolores Huerta with stories from @19thnews, @time, @AssociatedPress and more.
https://flipboard.com/@theculturedesk/remembering-dolores-huerta-ejn6d36c5arh38u3
#DoloresHuerta #RIP #InMemoriam
10/29/2026, 1 engagement
Who remembers that first flip on the Flipboard iPad app? It was pure magic. That feeling is back, now reimagined for iPhone Duo.
#Apple #Technology #iPhoneDuo
10/23/2026, 3 engagements
Follow the money into November. Affordability tops voters' worries, and Medicaid cuts haunt Republicans in battleground states, reports @politico.
Our editors are tracking every pocketbook story:
#USPolitics #Midterms #Economy
"Whatever shows up on that second screen, somebody decided it should be there. Usually that's a platform's algorithm, tuned for engagement. We think it should be people you trust."
Calling all journalists and newsrooms: Graze Social needs you on election night. Volunteer to cover a desk or watch your state’s feed:
https://midterms.graze.social/#volunteer
ICYMI: Graze is now part of the Flipboard family and we're excited to support this collective journalism project. Read more below: 👇🏻
https://graze.leaflet.pub/3mxtqqbazpc2j
#USPolitics #USNews #Midterms
U.S. citizens, are you registered to vote? Double check now. 🗳️
Our
's guide rounds up how to register and cast a ballot wherever you live.
https://flipboard.com/@electioncentral/how-to-vote-jrqvk7er1r0s1sa5
Follow key races and the issues driving the midterms in Vote 2026.
https://flipboard.com/@electioncentral/vote-2026-584vkbdez
#Midterms #USPolitics #News
U.S. citizens, are you registered to vote? Double check now. 🗳️
Our
's guide rounds up how to register and cast a ballot wherever you live.
https://flipboard.com/@electioncentral/how-to-vote-jrqvk7er1r0s1sa5
Follow key races and the issues driving the midterms in Vote 2026.
https://flipboard.com/@electioncentral/vote-2026-584vkbdez
#Midterms #USPolitics#News
RE: https://werd.social/@ben/117400813879546404
Calling all newsrooms, journalists and lovers of democracy: join Graze Social's people-powered midterms project.
Sign up, volunteer for election night and keep watch as races unfold in every state. Here’s how 🧵
#Midterms #Journalism
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10/9/2026, 4 engagements
At the beginning of this year,
, @caseynewton and
launched a fediverse instance, The Forkiverse. Now, they're shutting it down. Here's PJ's conversation with
for #DotSocial about the experiment.
https://flipboard.video/w/oUB64gSmFcML4m4e86nw3z
#Fediverse #ActivityPub
10/9/2026, 5 engagements
It's time to tune into the midterms! 🗳️
Today we're launching Vote 2026 — your destination for trusted election coverage, fact checks and analysis.
Explore Vote 2026:
Read more from Flipboard's
:
#Midterms #Journalism #USPolitics
10/1/2026, 1 engagement
More than three years ago, Meta stopped making news available in Canada. This was in response to the country's Online News Act, which was designed to force tech giants to pay publishers. Instead, news platforms lost traffic and revenue, "shadow media" accounts that posted other outlets' reporting proliferated, and while Google agreed to pay publishers $100 million a year, the big winners were legacy media organizations. "If a small group of digital publishers like blogTO got screwed along the way, I suppose we were just collateral damage," writes Tim Shore, who founded the Toronto-based local news site in 2004.
#Media #Journalism #Canada
9/28/2026, 1 engagement
McClatchy Media, owner of Pulitzer Prize-winning papers including the Miami Herald, Lexington Herald-Leader, and Sacramento Bee, laid off dozens of reporters last week. Now, it's positioning AI as the savior of its freefalling business, with CEO Tony Hunter telling journalists in a contentious, off-the-record town hall: “We have a company-wide effort to agentify the entire enterprise." Straight Arrow News says AI-generated content is already creeping in, with data indicating that in some recent months, the percentage hit 20% on some sites.
#Media #LocalNews #AI
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Quality journalism matters now more than ever.
Follow @CNN here or on Flipboard for their latest coverage.
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Media companies USA Today and McClatchy have both laid off journalists in the past week, and hundreds of reporters already lost their jobs this year. For his blog, Morning Brew founder Josh Sternberg writes about how the crumbling of the media affects democracy. "We see the erosion of trust of the institution [of the press], while at the same time we have an authoritarian in the White House, a Supreme Court majority that lives by the “rules for thee, but not for me” philosophy, and Congress that is so neutered that its protagonist disappears (Where is Mitch, by the way?) and no one bats an eye."
#Media #Journalism #Politic
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has canceled an upcoming exhibit honoring fashion designer John Galliano over his past antisemitic and racist statements, for which he was fired and convicted of "public insults" in 2011. Work by the ex-Dior creative director was meant to be the subject of the May 2027 Costume Institute show launching the annual Met Gala. Here's more from @AssociatedPress.
#JohnGalliano #Fashion #Race
8/31/2026, 1 engagement
Graze, the custom feed builder for the Atmosphere, has joined Flipboard! We're so excited to start working with them more closely. Read Graze CEO Devin Gaffney's Leaflet post here to learn more.
8/26/2026, 2 engagements
According to Pew Research Center, around 10 percent of 500,000 English-language webpages from the last five years were written or substantially edited by AI. The organization determined this using a tool called Open Pangram, which checks text for language patterns, identifying words, phrases and linguistic quirks that are considered typically of AI. When their data is filtered for content published after the release of ChatGPT, signs of AI authorship can be found in over one-third of pages. Here's the full story.
#Technology #AI #Writing
Flock surveillance is under scrutiny again.
Reports of wrongful detentions and civil liberties concerns are piling up. Read stories from NBC News, @Futurism, @Gizmodo, and local news orgs across the U.S. to better understand the issue.
https://flipboard.com/topic/flocksafety
#Flock #Surveillance #News
8/20/2026, 1 engagement
How bad are things for journalists? Amelia Emberwing was laid off a year ago. She writes for her newsletter, Picketywitch, about the wins, losses, and constant, exhausting hustle.
#Journalism #Media #Employment
U.S. entrepreneur and billionaire Peter Thiel is to receive the Axel Springer Award in recognition of how he has "created new markets, reshaped existing ones in an extraordinary way, and left a lasting mark on the technological, economic and societal debates of our time," according to a press release from the German media group that is honoring him. Axel Springer owns Die Welt, Bild, Politico, Business Insider, and the U.K.'s Telegraph. Here's more from DPA.
#Media #Journalism #PeterThiel
We love
's new Collections feature. Here's one for all our editorial desks in the fediverse.
https://flipboard.social/collections/116841441549346617
#Flipboard #News #Fediverse
Nearly 400 local newspapers have sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging copyright theft. Diane Kennedy, president of the New York News Publishers Association, told Straight Arrow News AI chatbots represent "an extinction-level event for newspapers." “We’re the credible sources, so if they kill us, they don’t have any credible sources anymore.”
#News #Media #Journalism
According to a survey of 100,000 people in 48 places, trust in news is at a 10-year low. The report from Oxford's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism says people are also increasingly turning to YouTube, TikTok and AI chatbots rather than publisher websites and TV news. Here's the executive summary of the report. We want to know, how would you define your trust in traditional news sources vs. 10 years ago? Tell us in the comments why you feel the way you do.
#News #Media #Journalism
Our Topics editors have created Flipboard topics for every #WorldCup team, from Algeria to Uzbekistan, plus topics for host cities and the whole tournament. Search the app or flipboard.com to find the country or countries you're rooting for.
https://flipboard.com/topic/fifaworldcup
#Football #Fifaworldcup
6/15/2026, 2 engagements
Times are hard for journalists, and they're getting harder. Peter Thiel has teamed up with a legal strategist called Aron D’Souza to create Objection, a tech startup that uses AI to assess the legitimacy of articles. Gary Baum writes for @THR about his experience being the first reporter to be taken to an "AI tribunal," over an article he wrote about Purdue Pharma heir Michael Sackler.
#Journalism #AI #Technology
6/12/2026, 2 engagements
“You don’t give a facelift with a f**king machete.” Ex "60 Minutes" staffers tell @Variety what they think of Bari Weiss's changes to the program.
#CBS #BariWeiss #Journalism
"When '60 Minutes' is in trouble, we are all in trouble." Jim Acosta writes for his newsletter about CBS, the firing of Scott Pelley, and what to do next. "Pelley was famous for giving reporters this piece of advice: 'you can either be too aggressive or not aggressive enough,'" Acosta writes. "It is high time for the independent media to follow Pelley’s advice, be aggressive, and sound the alarm about the coming storm."
#Media #Journalism #ScottPelley
6/3/2026, 2 engagements
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Updated: CBS News has fired Scott Pelley over his conversation with "60 Minutes" executive producer Nick Bilton. “Your antipathy to the future of the show has come through loud and clear. And I have heard you,” Bilton wrote in a letter to Pelley seen by NBC News.
#ScottPelley #Media #CBSNews
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6/3/2026, 2 engagements
"She is murdering '60 Minutes.'" @newyorktimes reports on an explosive CBS staff meeting in which "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley excoriated network editor in chief Bari Weiss and the show's new executive producer Nick Bilton. “She has no qualifications for her job; you have slender qualifications for this job. The changes that she’s made at the ‘Evening News’ have been catastrophic, so why should we expect that any of this is going to be any better?” Pelley asked Bilton. Weiss did not attend the meeting on the advice of CBS executives. [Gift link]
#Media #CBS #BariWeiss
What's coming next for
? Collections.
joined @mmccue on #DotSocial to discuss what they are, and what was top of mind in developing the feature. "[This] is really just a group of accounts of profiles that I can follow across servers, ideally across the fediverse, and maybe even someday including the whole open social web," he says. "What was very important for us is to to have safety in mind in how we design it, so what we have consciously decided against is a follow all button, because collections or starter packs, they can also quite easily be weaponized." Get the full podcast episode here.
https://dot-social.simplecast.com/episodes/felix-hlatky
#Mastodon #Fediverse
Hundreds of journalists, academics and filmmakers have signed a letter against the proposed merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery. The letter's signatories include former CNN anchor Jim Acosta, former ABC and CBS News correspondent Judy Muller. It warns that Paramount CEO and Trump pal David Ellison will likely alter CNN's editorial direction and HBO's documentaries to be more friendly to the Trump administration, and that the proposed merger should be perceived as a “political arrangement to circumvent constitutional safeguards, with severe consequences for American democracy.” Here's more from HuffPost.
#Media #TrumpAdministration #DavidEllison
The decline of the news industry is rapid and accelerating. Matt Pearce writes for NiemanLab about how behavioral economics can go some way to explaining this, and if it can be addressed. "Our digital economy has levied a gigantic cognitive tax on news consumers trying to find accurate information. The cost is just too much to bear."
#News #Journalism #Media
5/27/2026, 2 engagements
As Mastodon celebrates its 10-year anniversary in 2026, the open source platform’s new Executive Director,
, is focused on what it’ll take to make the next 10 years even more impactful. He and
spoke for the Dot Social podcast about the power of building at the protocol level, governments' use of Mastodon, and the Forkiverse.
https://dot-social.simplecast.com/episodes/felix-hlatky
#DotSocial #Mastodon #Forkiverse
5/27/2026, 2 engagements
Just when you thought the situation for journalists couldn't get worse, The Gamer has introduced a new system whereby writers are paid according to the traffic their stories attract. @Aftermath reports that workers will receive between $3 and $8 per 1,000 sessions depending on their role in the story's production. Here's more.
#Journalism #Media #TheGamer
5/25/2026, 2 engagements
Tyler Denk, the CEO of newsletter platform beehiiv, endorsed Spencer Pratt for L.A. mayor last week. Lex Roman writes for Revenue Rulebreaker (published with @ghost) about why beehiiv is not the same as Substack (yet) and why creators should still be ready to bail.
#Substack #Newsletters #Beehiiv
5/19/2026, 1 engagement
The Washington Post has invested $80,000 on audio and video gear for its new Make It Make Sense podcast. How's that working out for them?
of
breaks it down.
https://www.404media.co/washington-post-make-it-make-sense-opinion-podcast/
#Media #Video #Journalism #WashingtonPost
Three in four countries — including the United States — are now ranked "problematic" or worse on the annual World Press Freedom Index. Here's more from @dw_innovation.
#Media #Journalism #Press #PressFreedom
4/30/2026, 1 engagement
Once in a while we idly wonder whatever happened with @TheOnion's purchase of InfoWars. We finally have an answer. According to Bryce P. Tetraeder, CEO of The Onion's parent company, Global Tetrahedron: "At long last, InfoWars is ours." Read more about their plans — and the swag — here.
#TheOnion #InfoWars #News #Media
@[email protected] has received gifts totaling more than $110 million from two donors, one of whom is philanthropist Connie Ballmer, as a strategic investment in its future. “I support NPR because an informed public is the bedrock of our society, and democracy requires strong, independent journalism,” Ballmer says. Here's more from Editor and Publisher.
#Media #Journalism #NPR #Philanthropy
A new startup, Objection, aims to use AI to judge the "truth" of journalism. @Techcrunch's Rebecca Ballard talked to founder Aron D'Souza, who also co-created the Enhanced Games, about the Peter Thiel-backed venture.
#Journalism #Media #ArtificialIntelligence #AI
4/15/2026, 2 engagements
Search traffic is way down for news publishers, thanks to AI summaries, but clicks from social media are dropping too. NiemanLab looks at Chartbeat's data for traffic and time spent on publishers' sites from X and Facebook.
#News #Media #Journalism #SocialMedia
4/15/2026, 1 engagement
When TikTok’s future felt uncertain, Tori White saw an opportunity. On the latest Dot Social,
sits down with Skylight Social's CEO to talk about building a creator-first video platform on the AT Protocol. Watch the episode here, or find it wherever you get your podcasts.
https://flipboard.video/w/c9tgxs6U6WonWJwAXYh9vH
#DotSocial #Podcast #OpenSocial #ATProto #ATmosphereConf #Skylight #TikTok
The average American received no push notifications from a news organization in the last week, and only 16% pay for news. In a new series, Nieman Lab digs into how people get their information. First up: Sophie, a 37-year-old minister and mom of two who lives in Minneapolis.
#News #Journalism #Media #MediaIndustry
Veteran Voice of America journalists are suing Trump administration official Kari Lake, claiming the network is broadcasting propaganda. Here's more from @npr.
#Journalism #Media #VoiceOfAmerica #KariLake
CBS News Radio, which was established in 1927, is to shutter in May as part of cuts announced by CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss and president Tom Cibrowski today. Here's more from @Deadline.
#CBS #Media #News #Radio
Small publishers (1,000-10,000 daily page views) are experiencing the worst traffic declines in the AI era, Axios reports, based on data from Chartbeat. Our managing editor
writes about how Flipboard is working with independent and worker-owned publications to drive people to their sites. At the second link, find @AxiosNews's story on the latest traffic stats.
https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/ode-to-independent-media/
#Media #Journalism #Internet #AI
3/19/2026, 2 engagements
We’re kicking off season 3 of Dot Social with a conversation between our CEO, @mike, and
and
of
. Watch the episode here, or listen wherever you get your podcasts:
https://flipboard.video/videos/watch/c0dfea13-7f2a-402c-b47c-50ccd151554b
#DotSocial #Podcast #OpenSocial #AltStore #Federation #Fediverse
3.46 million people subscribe to journalist/documentarian/creator Andrew Callaghan's YouTube series, Channel 5. Sophie Culpepper, a NiemanLab journalist, attended his "carnival" event to see what the fuss was about. Here's what she thought. We want to know, as social and video networks overtake TV as a news source, where do you get your news (choose as many as you like)?
#News #Journalism #Media #SocialMedia #Creators
3/16/2026, 6 engagements
"One way you can really tell a journalist from any knucklehead creating media content is the answer to a simple question: Are they following a Code of Ethics?"
The Society of Professional Journalists is revising its code. @Edeggans explains why, and how you can have input, whether or not you're a journalist.
#Journalism #Media #Ethics
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3/12/2026, 1 engagement
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Amazing news from our friends at
! Keep an eye out for
and
's chat with
on the Dot Social podcast, coming soon!
#AltStore #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Federation #OpenSocial #DotSocial
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In a survey of 25 countries, the United States was the only county in which more adults describe the morality of their compatriots as bad than good. 53% of respondents said that the morality and ethics of other people in their country is either somewhat or very bad. Since this is a new question for Pew Research, the team says they don't know whether this is a long-held view or something new. A million miles away in sentiment, but just kilometres away geographically, 92% of Canadians think other Canadians are either very good or somewhat good.
#USNews #CanadianNews #Morality #Data
3/9/2026, 1 engagement
What is Looksmaxxing, who is Clavicular and what was wrong with The New York Times' most recent story about both? Digital culture expert Jamie Cohen breaks it down in this Medium post.
#Looksmaxxing #Clavicular #Media #NewYorkTimes #Culture #InternetCulture
"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
in his latest blogpost. Learn more about our work to support indie and worker-owned outlets here:
https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/ode-to-independent-media/
#Flipboard #Journalism #Media #IndependentJournalism
2/27/2026, 1 engagement
RE: https://flipboard.social/@miaq/116127527047637512
New episodes of @dot_social coming soon!
#DotSocial #Podcast #Technology #Tech #Decentralization
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2/25/2026, 2 engagements
Local journalism matters, example number one-billion (approximately). After a report by London Centric, an independent site founded by ex-Guardian journalist Jim Waterson, a billionaire landlord has shelved plans to carry out mass evictions across London. Here's more from London Centric on how their story made a difference.
#London #Journalism #Media #IndependentJournalism #LocalNews
2/24/2026, 2 engagements
U.S. Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer appeared on a panel together at the 62nd Munich Security Conference along with Matthew Whittaker, United States ambassador to NATO. They talked about complicated issues of foreign policy and geo-diplomacy for an hour or so and it was, at the time, seen as an uncontroversial, non-newsworthy conversation. Yet a few days later, the press was full of stories about their slip-ups and lack of knowledge. Emily Horne, a former National Security Council and State Department spokesperson, did a deep dive into what had happened. What she found? Stories from "pink slime" sites — local news publications that are largely funded by right-wing dark money groups — picked up and "laundered" into real news by POLITICO, The New York Times and more.
#News #Media #Journalism #MediaIndustry #AOC #GretchenWhitmer #PinkSlime
is changing course when it comes to how people join the platform. In late 2022, the team decided to send sign-ups directly to their server in order to make onboarding more straightforward. But that didn't align with the promise of decentralization. Here, Community Director @haubles explains the new approach to server recommendation, along with some other ways Mastodon is helping build community.
#Mastodon #SocialMedia #Decentralization #ActivityPub #Community #Technology #Tech
What does a Discord replacement look like, and how might the open social web play a part?
looks at what needs to happen — different apps built on the same protocols, active collaboration to make sure it all fits together — and how that's already fundamental to the Atmosphere and fediverse.
flip.it/QdL.F…
#ActivityPub #Mastodon #ATProtocol #Bluesky #Blacksky #Discord #Technology #Tech
Mastodon has announced plans to make its app more approachable for newcomers, and developed new features for creators. Here's
's story for @Techcrunch. Find the full blogpost by
and
at the second link.
#ActivityPub #Mastodon #OpenSocial #Technology #Tech
2/18/2026, 2 engagements