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." https://flip.it/1.dYHk #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 ;) […]

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 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 […]

"The Stakes Are Real: Why the Open Social Web Matters Now." Amazing keynote from @ben at last week's #fediforum, reminding us all that what we are building here is critical for the world at this moment in time, and also some good advice on how to solve the right problems […]

Hello fediverse, The AltStore is federating! It’s time to give developers and users an open platform to directly connect with each other while drastically improving app discovery. I believe so much in this mission that I joined their board to help. More here from @rileytestut […]

As Bari Weiss arrives at CBS News, staffers hold their breath for what comes next. @THR reports: "The Free Press founder will become editor-in-chief of CBS News, but her role outside the formal org chart is a perplexing question mark for insiders at the network." https://flip.it/JcUD1h […]

"The days of us being able to walk on to social media], tweet something, walk away, and get people to come to our website are over…" [@404mediaco's Jason Koebler told Nieman Lab's Hanaa' Tameez at the iMEdD International Journalism Forum last week. "We said, if we don’t aggressively move people […]

From 2022 to last November, the city of Odessa, Texas, was under the government of far-right hard-liners, led by Mayor Javier Joven. During their time in government, the city council passed an ordinance declaring Odessa a "sanctuary city for the unborn," banned trans people from using bathrooms […]

Until at least Sept. 12, the U.S. Department of Justice had on its website a study that showed white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. Now, it's gone. @404mediaco looks at what might have […]

Alternative newsweeklies published articles that the mainstream media didn't — from local gossip to political corruption. But by the early aughts, many had disappeared. Coyote, a new indie site for the Bay Area, seeks to capture the same spirit. Co-founder Emma Silvers writes about what that […]

A new month, a new set of elections in the U.S. @bolts's @taniel breaks it down, from the election to replace the late Rep. Gerry Connolly in northern Virginia on Sept. 9 to a Georgia state Senate seat in an area that went for Trump by more than 30 percentage points last year […]

Reverse migration. A decimated food system. ICE raids in communities across the country. What impact is the Trump administration's immigration policy having on the United States? @RollingStone created this @Flipboard Storyboard full of articles that attempt to answer that question […]

Does social media need to look like a endless long feed, and all we do is doom scroll it? Unlike the closed platforms, the open social web lets people innovate, and here is an interesting example: Surf from Flipboard is rethinking the entire experience. Watch the demo! […]

Keep up with the latest in climate news and innovation in Climate Watch — a @surf customer feed created by Flipboard’s @csullivan. If you’re not in the beta, sign up on the waitlist via the link below and use my referral code: Surf+JeJord […]

At Flipboard, we believe a healthy democracy starts with access to trustworthy information. Our team is committed to supporting quality journalism and making it easier for everyone to stay informed. Our values haven't changed. Here's a blogpost that explains more […]

Thanks to the open web, it’s more viable than ever for creators to take back ownership and control of their livelihoods. @molly0xfff joined Flipboard CEO @mike at SXSW 2025 to talk about building an ethical, creator-first internet. That fireside chat is now available as a Dot Social episode […]

Major Surf beta dropping today which introduces Starter Sets for the open social web. Now you can benefit from other people's curation to quickly and easily make highly useful, personalized feeds for each of your interests. For example, combine "Tech Builders and Thinkers", "Guardians of The […]

The Memorial Day weekend in the U.S. typically marks the start of summer there, so here’s a collection of light and frothy… just kidding! We’ve got stagflation! We’ve got a barnstormer from @Daojoan about the global loss of virtue and morality! We’ve got Dr. Phil’s son and his payday loans! In […]

I loved talking with @rudyfraser.com for this episode of #dotsocial Rudy is one of the most visionary builders and thinkers of the social web today. He helped me realize that the success of the social web is not about killer apps. It's about killer communities. Once you internalize this insight […]

Today, we're beginning to federate publisher accounts in Italy, France and Spain, and expanding in Brazil and Germany. You can now follow even more of your favorite news, lifestyle, tech and sports sources from Flipboard on the open social web. Read more about it here. See the spreadsheet at […]

It's a sunny #caturday #cats #catsofmastodon

I just told a room full of newsroom execs and investigative journalists, hopefully coherently, to always start with human problems, do not add AI to their workflows uncritically, and to build and use technology according tot heir values, with a duty of care for their communities. Privileged to […]

Hackers have targeted GlobalX Air, one of the main airlines the Trump administration is using as part of its deportation efforts, and stolen what they say are flight records and passenger manifests of all of its flights, including those for deportation. @404media has the story. #globalx […]

Congratulations to @johnonolan and the team at Ghost on their 12th birthday! Here's John's post reflecting on the idea behind the product, some of the incredible indie publishers who have adopted it (including @404mediaco, @caseynewton's Platformer, and @drownedinsound) and what's next […]

This seems like news (at least to me) ... From @Flipboard's most recent video of @pcottle -- "Some people have seen new [#activtypub integration] functionality in Brussels previewed....so hoping you will be excited later this year, 2025." #threads https://flipboard.video/w/xz9N4NPtHXdLhqn1EQ1TLN

It’s Friday, and that means only one thing: The chance to sleep later than 6.40am for a couple of days unless you’ve got kids, in which case, sooooorrrry. Oh, and also, it’s #newstodonfriday, where we share fantastic journalism from indie newsrooms and journalists! We’re kicking off this thread […]