Iran preps for a ground invasion by U.S. forces, even recruiting children to join the fight. @WSJ reports: "Tehran promises an all-out fight if the U.S. invades, including new attacks on the Gulf." Gift link: https://flip.it/WYA2uV #iran #war #news #middleeast

Hello fediverse! Today some of the most innovative creators & podcasters are launching social websites that will bring millions of their fans to the social web: verge.surf.social decoder.surf.social versionhistory.surf.social vergecast.surf.social wired.surf.social 404media.surf.social […]

When TikTok’s future felt uncertain, Tori White saw an opportunity. On the latest Dot Social, @mike 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 […]

RE: https://flipboard.social/@surf/116336026699518351 Super excited to see Surf now available on the web!

Most Americans believe recent U.S. military action against Iran has gone too far, and many are worried about affording gasoline, according to a new @AssociatedPress poll. "About 6 in 10 Americans 'somewhat' or 'strongly' oppose deploying U.S. troops on the ground to fight Iran, including about […]

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. https://flip.it/jAEWeb #cbs #media #news #radio

We’re kicking off season 3 of Dot Social with a conversation between our CEO, @mike, and @rileytestut and @shanegillio of @altstore. Watch the episode here, or listen wherever you get your podcasts: https://flipboard.video/videos/watch/c0dfea13-7f2a-402c-b47c-50ccd151554b #dotsocial #podcast […]

Americans are getting less information about climate change through the media than at any point in the last decade. Could dance music bridge the gap? @[email protected] has more on what climate communicators could learn from Bad Bunny: https://flip.it/.ZpcbZ #science […]

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 @csullivan writes about how Flipboard is working with independent and worker-owned publications to drive people to their […]

RE: https://flipboard.social/@Flipboard/116251548217417512 Can't wait to see who @mike interviews next!

The U.S. State Department cut jobs with deep expertise in the Middle East as Iran crisis escalates. @AssociatedPress reports the diminished "Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs would ordinarily be at the center of the geopolitical fray." https://flip.it/Ij3i.u #iran #statedepartment #diplomacy […]

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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." 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! […]