There’s a new playbook being written right now when it comes to the future of social media. The early-mover advantage is still in effect, and there’s a lot to figure out. Gone are opaque algorithms and the whims of any single company.

The fediverse represents a chance for quality journalism to shine again.

We talked to two leaders at fedi-forward publications — @TheConversationUS's @BostonAbrams, and @404mediaco's @jasonkoebler — about why they’re investing in the open social web, what they’ve learned so far, and their advice for other publishers just getting started.

https://medium.com/fedi-curious/lessons-on-the-road-to-reviving-journalism-via-the-fediverse-01b3748cacc5

#Flipboard #News #Media #Journalism #Mastodon #OpenSocialWeb #Fediverse

Lessons on the Road to Reviving Journalism via the Fediverse

As the fediverse continues to grow and evolve, publishers are setting up shop in this new ecosystem. Some outlets have a fediverse strategy that complements their continued activity on traditional…

^{Flipboard (Fedi Curious)}

BREAKING NEWS 🚨🚨🚨

AMERICAN MUSCLE...
AMERICAN MADE...
AMERICAN JOBS...

"For the first time during the war, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have enough artillery shells."
- President Zelensky

"None of the brigades are complaining about a lack of shells, and this has been the case for the past two months," he added.

After a Republican blockade was removed, US weaponry now pouring into Ukraine!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #BreakingNews #Breaking

from #CommonDreams
Critics Denounce Israel's Defense Against #Genocide Charges as 'Dishonest Talking Points'

"The problem for #Israel is that the world has seen what they've done," said one observer.

#DefendStudentProtesters #SolidarityWithPalestine #NotAntisemitism #CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael #ICJ #UN #DivestFromIsraelNow
#EndTheOccupation #PalestinianLivesMatter #StopArmingIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#Gaza #Palestine
#news #press @palestine @israel

https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-defense-icj

Critics Denounce Israel's Defense Against Genocide Charges as 'Dishonest Talking Points'

"The problem for Israel is that the world has seen what they've done," said one observer.

^{julia-conley (Common Dreams)}

#Albuquerque Is Throwing Out the Belongings of #Homeless People, Violating City Policy
==

The city has violated a court order and its own policies by discarding the personal property of thousands of homeless people, who have lost medications, birth certificates, IDs, treasured family photos and the ashes of loved ones.

#NewMexico #Southwest #Law #Police #Housing #Unhoused #News #Homelessness #CivilRights #HumanRights

https://www.propublica.org/article/albuquerque-homeless-encampments

Albuquerque Is Discarding Homeless People’s Belongings, Violating City Policy

^ProPublica

Who would have ever guessed that…?

𝘿𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙁𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙖 𝙛𝙚𝙬 𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙠𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙛 𝙞𝙣 𝙛𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙬𝙨

https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-05-14/deactivating-facebook-for-just-a-few-weeks-reduces-belief-in-fake-news.html

#facebook #social #media #SocialMedia #fake #news #FakeNews #disinformation #meta

Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news

The largest study ever carried out on social media deactivation has found that disconnecting lowers users political participation and also their propensity to believe misinformation

^{Jordi Pérez Colomé (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)}

ℹ #Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert #Fico is no longer in a life-threatening condition after being shot several times, the deputy prime minister has said

Tomas Taraba told the #BBC Mr #Fico's surgery had gone "well" and "I guess that at the end he will survive"

Earlier the #defense minister said Mr @fico was "fighting for his life" after being gravely injured in an attack in the small town of #Handlova

A suspect was detained at the scene of the #shooting

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-69019121 #Europe #News

Slovakia PM Robert Fico not in life-threatening condition - deputy PM

Tomas Taraba says Prime Minister Robert Fico's surgery has gone "well" after he was shot several times.

^{Malu Cursino & Sarah Rainsford, in Bratislava (BBC News)}

BREAKING NEWS 🚨

The writer who tried to kill the Prime Minister of Slovakia turned out to be connected with a pro-Russian group

Hungarian investigative journalist Szabolcs Panyi discovered that 71-year-old Juraj Cintula, who attacked Prime Minister Robert Fico, was previously linked to the pro-Russian group Slovenskí Branci (Slovak Conscripts). He found photos of Tsintula in the Facebook group Slovenski Branci.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #slovakia #Breaking #BreakingNews

Cable #news refused to report #Trump’s bombshell quid pro quo offer to Big Oil execs
#bribery

https://www.alternet.org/cable-news-trump-big-oil/

Cable news refused to report Trump’s bombshell quid pro quo offer to Big Oil execs

Major cable news networks Fox News Channel, CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBCall failed to cover former President Donald Trump's promise to Big Oil executives that he would reverse President Joe Biden's climate regulations if they donated $1 billion to his camp…

^{Olivia Rosane (Alternet.org)}

"Every Awful Thing Trump Has Promised to Do in a Second Term
The former president has pushed a slew of terrifying proposals, both publicly and privately, that he plans to unleash on America should he take down Biden"

#Extinction #MAGA #GOP #FossilFuel #Republicans #AntiScience #AntiEarth #Science #News #ClimateChange #Environment #Democrats #2024Election #Oil

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-second-term-plans-wildest-proposals-1234947327/

Trump's Second Term Plans: Wildest Proposals if He Wins 2024 Election

Donald Trump has made a slew of promises related to the economy, immigration, climate change, and more should he win the 2024 election.

^{Ryan Bort (Rolling Stone)}

Ontario's 'Crypto King' arrested, charged with fraud #News/Canada/Toronto

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-s-crypto-king-arrested-charged-with-fraud-1.7204958?cmp=rss/612

#News: Major mortgage lenders are sharing sensitive user data with Facebook.

If you’ve been on the market for a #home, the platform could know about your credit, your address, and more.
https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2024/05/15/mortgage-brokers-sent-peoples-estimated-credit-address-and-veteran-status-to-facebook

Mortgage Brokers Sent People’s Estimated Credit, Address, and Veteran Status to Facebook – The Markup

More than 200 national and regional lenders share sensitive user data with Facebook. Experts say it might be illegal

^{themarkup.org}

from #NewYorkTimes
[Bias alert - NYT usually favors Israel]
A Chaotic Night at #UCLA Raises Questions About Police Response

"Counterprotesters attacked a pro-Palestinian encampment for several hours without police intervention, and none were arrested. Now, the police response is under investigation."

#DefendStudentProtesters #SolidarityWithPalestine #NotAntisemitism
#CeasefireNow #EndUSAidToIsrael
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine @israel

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/us/ucla-counterprotesters-police-response.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rU0.Tvf-.4H4UIwmRlPIC&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

Alexey Milchakov, war criminal, co-leader and co-founder of the Rusich Group, that operated from 2022 within the Wagner Group, calls for the killing of prisoners of war.

He says that he hasn't taken Ukrainians prisoner since 2014, but killed them right away.

Milchakov is known for torturing and executing Ukrainian prisoners of war. He has repeatedly been photographed against the backdrop of dead Ukrainian soldiers.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia

from #WorldOutlook
Why Opposition to #Zionism is Not Antisemitism

[article contains links to a statement by over 1,000 #Jewish professors opposing equating #antiZionism with #antisemitism. Also contains link to a statement by Jewish students of #Columbia with the opposite position]

#DefendStudentProtesters #SolidarityWithPalestine #NotAntisemitism #CeasefireNow
#StopArmingIsrael
#StopGazaGenocide
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #USPolitics
#news #press @palestine @israel

https://world-outlook.com/2024/05/11/why-opposition-to-zionism-is-not-antisemitism/

Why Opposition to Zionism is Not Antisemitism - World-Outlook

An important and increasingly sharp debate is taking place today on what is antisemitism, or to use a more accurate term — Jew hatred.

^{world-outlook.com (World-Outlook)}

Soooooooo,

With our large debt, Trump's solution is to give MORE wealthy tax cuts, thus reducing our revenue even more....
DUMB.... DUMB.... DUMB
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline

Trump Pledges ‘Upper Class’ Tax Cut If He Returns to White House

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-11/trump-pledges-upper-class-tax-cut-if-he-returns-to-white-house

We have aurora!

#Aurora #Rochester #RochesterNY #NewYork #News #Space #pics

BREAKING NEWS 🚨

Incredibly bright aurora (Northern / Southern Lights) graces the skies over New Zealand due to the impact of the solar storm striking earth this weekend!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #breaking #breakingnews

"Stormy Daniels will return to the witness stand Thursday in Donald Trump’s hush money trial as the defense tries to undermine the credibility of the porn actor’s salacious testimony about their alleged sexual encounter and the money she was paid to keep quiet."

AP has the latest on the trial: https://flip.it/7dOuNZ

#Trump #TrumpTrial #StormyDaniels #HushMoney #USPolitics #Politics #News

Trump hush money trial: Defense attorneys attack Stormy Daniels' credibility

Stormy Daniels will return to the witness stand in Donald Trump’s hush money trial, as the defense tries to undermine the credibility of the porn actor’s salacious testimony about an alleged sexual encounter and the money she got to keep quiet.

^{MICHAEL R. SISAK (AP News)}

COMMENT OF THE DAY!

"And if Mr Putin and the Russian officials are worried about their troops in Ukraine getting hit with weapons from other countries, then the easiest thing to do is just take your troops and leave"
- John Kirby, United States National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO

Facing Unchecked Syphilis #Outbreak, Great Plains Tribes Sought Federal Help.

Months Later, No One Has Responded.
==

The #syphilis rate among #Indigenous people in the Great Plains is higher than at any point in 80 years of records.

More than 3% of #Native American babies born in #SouthDakota last year had the preventable and curable — but potentially fatal — disease.

#news #health #healthcare #kids #babies #PublicHealth

https://www.propublica.org/article/syphilis-south-dakota-great-plains-tribes-hhs-becerra?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Amid Syphilis Outbreak in Great Plains Tribes, Feds Silent

The syphilis rate among Indigenous people in the Great Plains is higher than at any point in 80 years of records. More than 3% of Native American babies born in South Dakota last year had the preventable and curable — but potentially fatal — disease.

^ProPublica

The Long Journey to #Asylum for One Venezuelan Family
==

The Pabón family is among the nearly 8 million Venezuelans who have fled their country.

Follow them as they begin a life in the U.S. and journey through an asylum system buckling under record numbers of new arrivals.

#immigration #immigrants #border #news #documentary #video

https://youtu.be/w8F_CAkOxwQ

“The Right Way”: The Long Journey to Asylum for One Venezuelan Family

The Pabón family is among the nearly 8 million Venezuelans who have fled their country, one of the largest displacements in the world. ProPublica and The Tex...

^YouTube

"Friends of the Court," ProPublica's investigation into Supreme Court justices' beneficial relationships with billionaire donors, has been awarded the #Pulitzer Prize for Public Service!

Here are the highlights from the reporting (THREAD)

#News #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt #ClarenceThomas #SamuelAlito #HarlanCrow #Law #Journalism

“We cannot allow Ukraine to fall”: Hakeem Jeffries, US House Minority Leader and Leader of the House Democratic Caucus, did not rule out sending US troops to help the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

"We can't let Ukraine fall, because if it does, then there's a significant likelihood that America will have to get into the conflict. Not simply with our money, but with our servicewomen and our servicemen," Jeffries told CBS News.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin

New: #Oil Companies Contaminated a Family Farm. The #Courts and Regulators Let the Drillers Walk Away.
==

The oil and #gas industry has reaped profits without ensuring there will be money to plug and clean up their wells.

In #Oklahoma, that work could cost more than $7 billion if it falls to the state.

#news #Pollution #Environment #Safety

https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-cleanup

An Oil Well Polluted a Family Farm. The Courts Let Drillers Walk Away.

The oil and gas industry has reaped profits without ensuring there will be money to plug and clean up their wells. In Oklahoma, that work could cost more than $7 billion if it falls to the state.

^ProPublica

BREAKING NEWS 🚨

The Biden administration put a hold on a shipment of U.S.-made ammunition to ISRAEL last week, two Israeli officials stated.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Israel #gaza #Hamas #BreakingNews #Breaking

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/05/israel-us-ammunition-shipment-hold

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 29, 2024

#EU #Pentagon #Military #War #NATO #US #NAFO #News #Putin #Ukraine #Democrats #GOP #Republicans #MAGA #Russia #ISW

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-april-29-2024

Finally! After 50 years of draconian pot laws, #cannabis will be moved off of the Drug Enforcement Administration's very restrictive Schedule I ('no medical use') & #Biden admin will move to Schedule III.

This is a BFD. Activists spent so much time and energy working for this.

#news #USPol #pot #marijuana

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/biden-administration-plans-reclassify-marijuana-easing-restrictions-na-rcna149424

Biden administration plans to reclassify marijuana, easing restrictions nationwide

The Biden administration plans to reclassify marijuana for the first time since the Controlled Substances Act was enacted more than 50 years ago.

^{Julie Tsirkin (NBC News)}

from #CommonDreams
#Holocaust Survivor Tells Student Anti-Genocide Protesters: 'Just Keep Doing It'

"There is a question of historical responsibility towards injustice, genocide, and fascism," said #StephenKapos. "If you are indifferent, if you do not take a stand, you acquire a degree of guilt."

#DefendStudentProtesters #SolidarityWithPalestine #Palestine #StopGazaGenocide #CeasefireNow #LetGazaLive #EndUSAidToIsrael #Gaza #Israel
#news #press @palestine @israel

https://www.commondreams.org/news/holocaust-survivors-gaza-genocide

Holocaust Survivor Tells Student Anti-Genocide Protesters: 'Just Keep Doing It'

"There is a question of historical responsibility towards injustice, genocide, and fascism," said Stephen Kapos. "If you are indifferent, if you do not take a stand, you acquire a degree of guilt."

^{brett-wilkins (Common Dreams)}