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https://flipboard.social/collections/116841441549346617
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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.
https://flip.it/usYHQu
#News #Media #Journalism #MediaIndustry #AOC #GretchenWhitmer #PinkSlime
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.”
Mastodon has announced plans to make its app more approachable for newcomers, and developed new features for creators. Here's @Sarahp@mastodon.social's story for @Techcrunch@flipboard.com. Find the full blogpost by @renchap@oisaur.com and @imanijoy@mastodon.social at the second link.
https://flip.it/TKKQZS
https://flip.it/RQRRnp
#ActivityPub #Mastodon #OpenSocial #Technology #Tech
Once in a while we idly wonder whatever happened with @TheOnion@flipboard.com'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.
https://flip.it/_a_k_c
Amazing news from our friends at @altstore@fosstodon.org! Keep an eye out for @rileytestut@mastodon.social and @shanegillio@indieweb.social's chat with @mike@flipboard.social on the Dot Social podcast, coming soon!
#AltStore #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Federation #OpenSocial #DotSocial
"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@flipboard.social 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
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.
https://flip.it/bFGW8O
#USNews #CanadianNews #Morality #Data
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@flipboard.social writes about how Flipboard is working with independent and worker-owned publications to drive people to their sites. At the second link, find @AxiosNews@flipboard.com's story on the latest traffic stats.
https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/ode-to-independent-media/
https://flip.it/uhVLNO
Why do we want to grow the open social web, and for whom? @ben@werd.social says the value is in protocols that allow people — all people around the world — to build and own communities that address their needs. "The only way to achieve that is to not just co-design with them but distribute equity. They must be full co-owners of the open social web," he writes.
https://flip.it/zjR0kR
#OpenSocial #ActivityPub #Mastodon
@Mastodon@mastodon.social 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@hachyderm.io explains the new approach to server recommendation, along with some other ways Mastodon is helping build community.
https://flip.it/1bWN26
#Mastodon #SocialMedia #Decentralization #ActivityPub #Community #Technology #Tech
@npr@flipboard.com 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.
We’re kicking off season 3 of Dot Social with a conversation between our CEO, @mike@flipboard.com, and @rileytestut@mastodon.social and @shanegillio@indieweb.social of @altstore@fosstodon.org. 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
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.
https://flip.it/Pi9F1Y
#Media #Journalism #PeterThiel
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.
https://flip.it/1YzcIu
#London #Journalism #Media #IndependentJournalism #LocalNews
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@mastodon.social.
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.
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New episodes of @dot_social coming soon!
#DotSocial #Podcast #Technology #Tech #Decentralization
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Dot Social is back in the saddle! Here's a quick peek at @mike@flipboard.social recording a new episode today with @rileytestut@mastodon.social and @shanegill.io of @altstore@explore.alt.store#dotsocial @dot_social
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.
What does a Discord replacement look like, and how might the open social web play a part?
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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.
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#ActivityPub #Mastodon #ATProtocol #Bluesky #Blacksky #Discord #Technology #Tech
Google search traffic to publishers declined globally by a third last year, according to new Chartbeat data. In the U.S. only, referrals from organic Google search were down by 38% year on year. "The report noted that publishers that specialise in lifestyle or utility content such as weather, TV guides, or horoscopes were more likely to have seen traffic declines, linking it to the arrival of Google’s AI summaries at the top of search results from 2024." Here's the full story from Press Gazette.
#Technology #Tech #Journalism #Media #Google #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Lifestyle
Last week's cuts at The Washington Post were even worse than initially reported. An accounting by the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, the union that represents Post journalists, says nearly half the paper's newsroom was eliminated. Here's more from Washingtonian.
https://flip.it/c9PXlk
#Journalism #Media #News #WashingtonPost
Media expert @Edeggans@flipboard.com takes a look at what's going on with CBS News and The Washington Post. "History has shown that journalism has often needed wealthy, civic-minded patrons willing to support the efforts of trained and experienced professionals who can deliver accurate information to the public," he writes in his Switching Codes newsletter. "Time for the wealthiest people in this country — and on this planet — to do more than protect their bottom lines while our journalism infrastructure burns."
https://flip.it/ZOygZx
#Media #Journalism #WashingtonPost #CBSNews
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@flipboard.com.
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 — ghosted her. Here's their story about what happened.
https://flip.it/ygu_2d
#Tech #News #Media #Journalism #AI
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.
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.
https://flip.it/cQbIZq
#Looksmaxxing #Clavicular #Media #NewYorkTimes #Culture #InternetCulture
It was a dead heat in our poll on news sharing on social media: 37% said they what they want, to everyone and 37% said they limit sharing according to the audience/platform. One-quarter of respondents don't share news on social media. In the comments, there were references to sharing via text, and to sharing freely, but not on standard corporate social media (we love you, #fediverse!).
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@chgowiz Yes, the fediverse folk are perhaps not typically choosing between Facebook and Twitter!
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HI @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social, we've hit federate and anything you flip into public Magazines in future will be viewable here at @GroupNebula563@flipboard.com!
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HI @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social so sorry for the delay on this! Please could you let us know your Flipboard user name and we'll get right to federating?
A new startup, Objection, aims to use AI to judge the "truth" of journalism. @Techcrunch@flipboard.com's Rebecca Ballard talked to founder Aron D'Souza, who also co-created the Enhanced Games, about the Peter Thiel-backed venture.
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Thanks for everything you’ve done for the fediverse, @andypiper, and all the best for whatever wonderful step comes next!
@dtm@mastodon.cc @SrRochardBunson@universeodon.com Hi David! Sorry for the delay in getting back to you! We have now federated your Flipboard account so it's discoverable and followable here:
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Find the Dot Social playlist here and discover past episodes with @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io, @tchambers@indieweb.social, @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social, @kissane@mas.to and more.
https://flipboard.video/c/dot_social/videos
#DotSocial #Podcast #OpenSocial #ActivityPub #Fediverse
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If you're a @surf user, check out the custom feed to follow conversations from each episode and posts from guests.
https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jyqbv2607cxrwm8qvg9szxk8
#DotSocial #Podcast #OpenSocial #Federation #Fediverse
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@jitigaming@ludosphere.fr Thanks for flagging this! We will let the team know.
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HI @kostyn@niagara.social, we can look into getting this federated for you!
Those of us who work in the news business are highly aware of the perilous situation for local outlets, and how bad that could be for communities and democracy. The general public. however, don't seem to know or care. Here's NiemanLab's story on the results of new survey of adults who live in U.S. news deserts and news oases.
https://flip.it/CK5iri
#News #Media #Journalism #LocalNews
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HI @evilotto@sfba.social! We have federated many of our Flipboard accounts, which allows you to follow them in the fediverse. Here's an up-to-date spreadsheet of which accounts are available. There typically isn't much conversation/dialogue with publishers because they use RSS to add their content to Flipboard. However one advantage is that their content is typically organized topically into Magazines (for example, @theverge@flipboard.com is the main account, whereas @science-news-theverge is just the science coverage). That means your entire feed won't be flooded with every single thing an outlet publishes if you follow the account and you can just check out the things you're interested in.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU/edit?gid=1764807022#gid=1764807022
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Catch up on seasons 1 and 2 of DotSocial here:
https://flipboard.video/c/dot_social/videos
#DotSocial #Podcast #OpenSocial #Federation #Fediverse
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@Brownian_motion@mastodon.scot This link should be followable now:
@SahanJournal@flipboard.com
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@trezzer@social.linux.pizza Oh, d'oh, yes, of course! Worth adding to the poll and losing the first view votes as this is such a miss on our part!
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@starlily@mastodon.social Hi! We hear you on Substack and understand why you choose not to engage with it. However it's the tool a lot of indie journalists choose to use when they go solo, and they do a lot of important reporting — like this story, which benefited probably hundreds of Londoners. We don't know Jim Waterson and his team, but would encourage him to migrate his site to another provider if we did! #NotABot
More episodes are on their way! Read about what's coming up:
https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/dot-social-is-back/
#DotSocial #Podcast #OpenSocial #Federation #Fediverse