Facebook is preparing to adjust its News Feed to de-emphasize political posts and current events, but news reader Flipboard is instead rolling out an update that puts users in control of their own feeds. The company announced this morning the launch of a new controller on the cover of its own main …
News aggregator Flipboard‘s local coverage is making what product lead Brian Gottesman described as a “quantum leap,” expanding from 60 topics (a.k.a. cities, towns and communities that you can follow) to more than 1,000. While Flipboard has allowed users to follow stories focused…
Flipboard, the media curation app that organizes news into a magazine format, has long balanced algorithms and human curation. We catch up with its chief executive Mike McCue, who was formerly a board member of Twitter, as he explains what other services could learn from his app – particularly after a long-term weaponization of news saw rioters storm the Capitol.
