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 […]

Four Conde Nast staffers — a senior fact checker at The New Yorker, a digital staffer at Bon Appétit, a video staffer, and Jake Lahut, a politics reporter for WIRED — have been fired after a confrontation with human resources over the folding of Teen Vogue into Vogue. Here's more from @Semafor. […]

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 […]

@greg of @Flipboard talking ATProto at #ietf124!

The “Why I’m Leaving Substack” post is the new “Goodbye to All That,” writes Sarah Scrier for NiemanLab. some top newsletter writers — including Anne Helen Petersen, Lyz Lenz, and Virginia Sole-Smith — have left Substack for Patreon. Email delivery issues, poor technical support and an […]

Teen Vogue, which had in the last decade become known as a place for young people to get their political news, is folding into Vogue.com and its editor, Verna Sharma, is stepping down. Here's the official announcement. It makes no reference to whether politics reporting will continue, sating […]

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 […]

Prince Andrew is to lose his "prince" title and mansion, and will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. https://flip.it/UY-kzD #uknews #jeffreyepstein #royalfamily #princeandrew #andrew

When the Times of London reported that former New York City mayor Bill de Blasio had misgivings about frontrunner Zohran Mamdani's policies, it seemed unlikely, since de Blasio had previously endorsed the Democratic candidate. It was unlikely — in fact, it wasn't true. In a remarkable snafu by […]

U.S. immigration authorities are using smartphone facial recognition technology in the field to determine whether people are citizens, @404mediaco reports. Officers use an app called Mobile Fortify, which ahs a bank of 200M images and data from the State Department, CBP, FBI, and states as well […]

What do you buy the person who has everything this holiday season? How about a urine-scanning health tracker, for the reasonable price of $380, plus $100 every three months for replacement cartridges? The Tom's Guide team gave the Withings U-Scan a wee try. https://flip.it/Yv8GL0 #technology […]

Six years ago Ms. Rachel was a stay-at-home mom with a baby on her hip. Today she has a YouTube channel with more than 17 million subscribers, plus a Netflix series, nine books, and a second baby. She's also one of the loudest American voices speaking out for children in Gaza. @GLAMOUR made her […]

Update: The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that Anthony Boyd's execution can go forward today. Justices Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson dissented from the denial of the application for a stay and certiorari (review). Here's more from @AlcomNews. At the second link, find Lauren Gill's reporting for […]

Most of the journalists who cover the Pentagon, include the New York Times, the Washington Post and Fox News, decided to surrender their press credentials rather than sign the U.S. Defense Department's pact restricting their coverage. Enter the new generation. The list of organizations and […]

Good day all! Fireside Fedi Episode 51 starts NOW! Special Guest: @mike CEO of #flipboard . Working on #surf . #entreprenuer Watch the show live: #owncast #livestream - https://stream.firesidefedi.live After the show: #peertube #vod - https://video.firesidefedi.live #castopod #fedicast - […]

More good news on the vaccine front! New research published in Nature indicates that the COVID-19 mRNA-based vaccines that saved millions of lives may also help the immune system fight cancer. Two of the scientists involved in the study break things down for @TheConversationUS. At the second […]

"Christina's World," the famous painting by American artist Andrew Wyeth, went out of MOMA's gallery rotation in 2024, and Adam Neese, the museum's Senior Collections Photographer for Conservation, took the opportunity to take a closer look at it. For the MOMA blog, he writes about the imaging […]

When Alice Gooblar-Perovic, Aahana Gupta, and Lydia Cruce were freshmen at Iowa City West High School, they learned that thousands of books, including "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Nineteen Minutes," were going to be pulled from classrooms across her state. This was in order to comply with Senate […]

The Amazon Web Services outage hit major websites and apps across the globe, including @Flipboard. What we know so far as recovery begins, from CNBC: https://flip.it/sH.6Hr #amazon #aws #tech #technology #news

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who last week told the New York Times that the National Guard could fill a shortage in police officers in San Francisco, has changed his mind. Benioff's remarks led to widespread criticism, and to longtime associate Ron Conway stepping down from the board of the […]

In September, Masha Hamilton and her son, Cheney Orr, took a nearly-2,000-mile road trip along Interstate 95 — to connect with each other, and America. The pair chronicled their experiences for this Atavist longread. "The America I’ve met on the road is also far more recognizable, resilient, and […]

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 […]

We've been having outages on Flipboard recently as a result of spammers. ⛔️ We’ve blocked malicious traffic from several cloud providers, so things should run more smoothly. Still seeing issues? Let us know via our support chat: https://flipboard.helpshift.com/hc/en/ #flipboard

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 […]

In May 2025, Google began to pay CA$100 million a year to media outlets in order to be exempt from Canada's Online News Act. Gretel Kahn of the University of Oxford's Reuters Institute spoke to representatives from The Logic, @thetyee, IndigiNews and The Rover about how things are going, who […]

[References racism, slurs, violence as part of article about Young Republicans in USA.] What do leaders of Young Republican groups talk about when they think no one's eavesdropping? Leaked private messages suggest they use racist slurs, joke about slavery and gas chambers, and share violent […]

How easy is it to "poison" a large language model's data? Much easier than experts previously thought. New research from the Alan Turing Institute indicates that only 250 documents are needed to be inserted in order to manipulate a model's behavior. Here's more from institute's blog, including a […]

The late Jane Goodall is the first person featured in a new Netflix series, "Famous Last Words," which shares posthumous messages from notable figures. @euronews reports that the episode was recorded in March. In it, Goodall, who died last week, shares her thoughts on the people she disliked — […]

Thirty Bob Ross paintings will be auctioned over the next few months, with proceeds going to small and rural public stations across the United States that have had their funding cut off. Congress has eliminated $1.1 billion allocated to public broadcasting, leading to many stations making […]

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 […]

After 29 years of being associated with NBC News, MSNBC is becoming independent, starting with breaking its relationships with correspondents and crews, and ending with a name change to MS NOW. Poynter Institute reports on the official 10 principles of reporting that were circulated to newsrooms […]

Is it true that there are 99 Irish words for rain? Author and broadcaster Manchán Magan, who died last week at age 55, wasn't sure, so he wrote a book about it, "Ninety-Nine Words for Rain (and One for Sun)." Here's an excerpt, which was published in the Irish Times. "The word for a sudden […]

As #fediforum starts tomorrow, this is a good time to note the updated @surf is live here: https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jvprse7ptd6b9gccy3m9g547 #surffeeds

Earlier this week, agents from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security surrounded and raided an apartment building in Chicago, pulling men, women and children from their beds in the middle of the night. They then posted a "highlight reel" on social media. For his Doomsday Scenario newsletter […]

"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 […]

FediForum is coming up. It's an unconference, so the agenda is set by the attendees, but we do know that it will be unmissable, featuring a keynote from @ben and sessions from people like @quillmatiq, @j12t, @johannab and more. Here's the schedule, plus some of what's on the cards […]

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U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to transfer ownership of TikTok's U.S. operation to American investors including Larry Ellison, Michael Dell and Rupert Murdoch. Details of the deal are still unknown. Here's more on the story from @WIRED. Asked by a reporter on Thursday […]

Huntington's disease, a fatal genetic condition, has been successfully treated for the first time. @BBCNews reports on a type of gene therapy developed at University College London that slows the disease by 75% in patients. It offers the first signs of hope for sufferers of this brutal and […]

The investigative newsroom I work for, @ProPublica, is raising money right now. This is the last few days of our pledge drive. We report on abuses of power in the public interest. We reported on who works for DOGE and revealed Clarence Thomas’s conflicts of interest. It was the first outlet to […]

For the past 120 years, the U.S. National Audubon Society has worked on bird conservation and for the past 16, it's run a contest to find the most stunning imagery of our feathered friends. @[email protected] shares some of the winning photos, from a royal tern feeding its chick a fish to a […]

Charlie Kirk's assassination didn't occur in a vacuum. It's just the latest in a long line of political murders and attacks that have targeted Americans of all political persuasions. Why is political violence rising and can anything be done to curtail it? Our @ElectionCentral compiled a […]

I've been a founder pretty much my entire adult life and my definition of "founder mode" is more of a "founder loop" which is quite simple: Try best to craft product for customers/users; Meet and talk with them to gather feedback; Debrief with team to strategize and sequence changes; Repeat for […]

With less than a week to go, let's see which platforms are responding to the Annual Fediverse Survey To help make the graph readable, Mastodon, with 59 entries, is not included in the visual. Any platforms with only one response have been excluded (13 […] [Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]

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 […]

America's newsrooms are in retreat from diversity, equity and inclusion, Hanaa' Tameez writes for Nieman Lab. She reports on how news organizations have "moved on" from race reporting projects, shuttered diversity- and identity-related products, and reduced their presences at events like the […]

Recently there has been a lot of discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol which has been quite dividing and heated. Yesterday at the Social Web CG meeting (the group that maintains the ActivityPub and related specifications), I proposed releasing a statement that counters the narrative that […]

Lachlan Murdoch has won the succession battle to control his father Rupert's media empire. Anointed by Rupert, he faced opposition from his siblings, Prudence, Elisabeth and James, but on Monday, they agreed to take $1.1 billion each for their shares in the family's businesses. @npr takes a look […]

@iftas is conducting its annual needs assessment survey, inviting Fediverse moderators, administrators, and community managers to provide input on how IFTAS can help them. In the past, this has led to the development of critical tools for CSAM detection and reporting, regulatory compliance […]

Apple just held its big iPhone 17 event. Here's @TechRadar's @Flipboard Storyboard about everything they launched, including how the new phones compare to Google and Samsung products, what to know about the AirPods Pro 3, and whether it's worth upgrading your Apple Watch […]