<p>"AI disclaimers for readers have been hotly debated in the news industry, with some critics arguing that such labels alienate audiences, even when generative AI is only used as an assistive tool."</p><p><a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/a-new-bill-in-new-york-would-require-disclaimers-on-ai-generated-news-content/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/a-new-bill-in-new-york-would-require-disclaimers-on-ai-generated-news-content/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/a-ne</span><span class="invisible">w-bill-in-new-york-would-require-disclaimers-on-ai-generated-news-content/</span></a></p><p>Somehow this just reminds me of when people were embarrassed to admit they were paying for Twitter/X.</p><p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/embarrassed-about-paying-musk-for-twitter-blue-you-can-hide-the-checkmark-now/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/embarrassed-about-paying-musk-for-twitter-blue-you-can-hide-the-checkmark-now/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20</span><span class="invisible">23/08/embarrassed-about-paying-musk-for-twitter-blue-you-can-hide-the-checkmark-now/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/genai/" rel="tag">#GenAI</a> <a href="/tags/newyork/" rel="tag">#NewYork</a></p>
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<p>Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. </p><p>He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was a ProPublica reporter.</p><p><a href="https://propub.li/4gF50W0" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>propub.li/4gF50W0</a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/militia/" rel="tag">#Militia</a> <a href="/tags/jan6/" rel="tag">#Jan6</a> <a href="/tags/insurrection/" rel="tag">#Insurrection</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/uspolitics/" rel="tag">#USPolitics</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a></p>
<p>It’s Friday! It’s nearly June! How the heck did that happen?! Here’s our <a href="/tags/newstodonfriday/" rel="tag">#NewstodonFriday</a> selection of stories from independent newsrooms and a few that caught the Flipboard editorial team’s eye. And while there’s hard-hitting journalism in there (we live in hard-hitting times), there’s more than our usual number of inspiring, positive stories of hope and beauty amidst destruction and oppression. <a href="https://journa.host/@timkmak" rel="nofollow">@timkmak</a>’s team writes about secret apartment concerts in Ukraine. <span class="h-card"><a href="https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>TheConversationUS</span></a></span>’s story is about “bone music” in Soviet Russia. We’ll end with a Tiny Desk concert from <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@npr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>npr</span></a></span> to take you into the weekend. Please follow independent publishers on the open social web, engage with their stories, and donate money if you can. ⤵️</p><p><a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#Media</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/newstodon/" rel="tag">#Newstodon</a> <a href="/tags/mastodonmigration/" rel="tag">#MastodonMigration</a> <a href="/tags/followfriday/" rel="tag">#FollowFriday</a></p>
<p>“BadAss Grandmas” Pushed for an <a href="/tags/ethics/" rel="tag">#Ethics</a> Commission. Then the North Dakota Legislature Limited Its Power.<br>—</p><p>Led by a bipartisan group of women, North Dakotans voted to create an ethics oversight body six years ago. Since then, the group has received 81 complaints and has not substantiated a single one.</p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/northdakota/" rel="tag">#NorthDakota</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/oversight/" rel="tag">#Oversight</a></p><p><a href="https://propub.li/4fKp3Rm" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>propub.li/4fKp3Rm</a></p>
<p>After Jan. 6, 2021, ProPublica sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users to create an immersive, first-person view of the Capitol riot as experienced by those who were there.</p><p>Revisit the collection: <a href="https://propub.li/4a4RqZA" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>propub.li/4a4RqZA</a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/video/" rel="tag">#Video</a> <a href="/tags/jan6/" rel="tag">#Jan6</a> <a href="/tags/insurrection/" rel="tag">#Insurrection</a> <a href="/tags/capitolattack/" rel="tag">#CapitolAttack</a></p>
<p>Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said prepackaged foods have “mass poisoned” tribal communities.</p><p>But the Trump administration ended a program that tribal food banks relied on for fresh, locally produced food important to their traditions and cultures.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/tribal-food-grant-cuts-trump-rfk-jr?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/tribal-food-grant-cuts-trump-rfk-jr?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tri</span><span class="invisible">bal-food-grant-cuts-trump-rfk-jr?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/rfkjr/" rel="tag">#RFKJr</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#Health</a> <a href="/tags/food/" rel="tag">#Food</a> <a href="/tags/native/" rel="tag">#Native</a> <a href="/tags/indigenous/" rel="tag">#Indigenous</a> <a href="/tags/nutrition/" rel="tag">#Nutrition</a> <a href="/tags/culture/" rel="tag">#Culture</a></p>
<p>An examination of more than 1,200 federal judges and state supreme court justices turned up dozens of judges who chose not to recuse when facing potential appearances of impropriety involving familial financial connections.</p><p>(Published July 2024)<br><a href="https://propub.li/40kGxzo" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>propub.li/40kGxzo</a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a> <a href="/tags/ethics/" rel="tag">#Ethics</a> <a href="/tags/transparency/" rel="tag">#Transparency</a></p>
<p>"Chief information and technology officers surveyed for BI indicated that on average they expect a net 3% of their workforce to be cut, according to a report published Thursday.</p><p>[...]</p><p>Nearly a quarter of the 93 respondents predict a steeper decline of between 5% and 10% of total headcount."</p><p><a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wall-street-job-losses-may-071500049.html" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="finance.yahoo.com/news/wall-street-job-losses-may-071500049.html"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">finance.yahoo.com/news/wall-st</span><span class="invisible">reet-job-losses-may-071500049.html</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/labor/" rel="tag">#labor</a> <a href="/tags/workersrights/" rel="tag">#WorkersRights</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a></p>
<p>A “Horrendous” Alaska Sexual Assault Case, Delayed for a Decade<br>—</p><p>Four different judges have agreed to delay the trial more than 70 times in total. We pieced together a timeline of the delays using audio recordings and logs from every hearing.</p><p><a href="https://propub.li/428a7tw" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>propub.li/428a7tw</a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/alaska/" rel="tag">#Alaska</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/crime/" rel="tag">#Crime</a></p>
<p>Elon Musk’s Boring Company Is Tunneling Beneath Las Vegas With Little Oversight<br>—</p><p>Given Musk’s role advising President-elect Donald Trump on ways to slash regulations and <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#government</a> oversight, Boring and the Vegas Loop project might be a harbinger for the country.</p><p><a href="https://propub.li/3Wb4iaL" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>propub.li/3Wb4iaL</a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/musk/" rel="tag">#Musk</a> <a href="/tags/lasvegas/" rel="tag">#LasVegas</a> <a href="/tags/donaldtrump/" rel="tag">#DonaldTrump</a> <a href="/tags/elonmusk/" rel="tag">#ElonMusk</a> <a href="/tags/regulation/" rel="tag">#Regulation</a> <a href="/tags/environment/" rel="tag">#Environment</a> <a href="/tags/transit/" rel="tag">#Transit</a> <a href="/tags/traffic/" rel="tag">#Traffic</a></p>
<p>At Flipboard, we believe a healthy democracy starts with access to trustworthy information. Our team is committed to supporting quality journalism and making it easier for everyone to stay informed.</p><p>Our values haven't changed. Here's a blogpost that explains more.</p><p><a href="https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/flipboard-commitment-to-truth-and-quality-journalism/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/flipboard-commitment-to-truth-and-quality-journalism/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">about.flipboard.com/inside-fli</span><span class="invisible">pboard/flipboard-commitment-to-truth-and-quality-journalism/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#Media</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a> <a href="/tags/ethics/" rel="tag">#Ethics</a> <a href="/tags/ethicaljournalism/" rel="tag">#EthicalJournalism</a> <a href="/tags/mediaindustry/" rel="tag">#MediaIndustry</a> <a href="/tags/flipboard/" rel="tag">#Flipboard</a></p>
<p>Ronnie Dugger, founding editor and longtime publisher of the Texas Observer and for many years the crusading conscience of the progressive movement in Texas and beyond, died of complications of dementia at a hospice center in Austin on May 27. He was 95. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/ronnie-dugger-1930-2025/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/ronnie-dugger-1930-2025/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/ronnie-d</span><span class="invisible">ugger-1930-2025/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#journalism</a> <a href="/tags/rip/" rel="tag">#RIP</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#media</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a></p>
<p>Alaska judges granted 50 delays over seven years before the trial of Fred Tom Hurley III — accused of sexually assaulting two women in broad daylight — finally began last month.</p><p>In that time, both of the victims died.</p><p><a href="https://propub.li/4gVcioi" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>propub.li/4gVcioi</a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/crime/" rel="tag">#Crime</a> <a href="/tags/police/" rel="tag">#Police</a> <a href="/tags/alaska/" rel="tag">#Alaska</a></p>
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<p>North Carolina Supreme Court Blocked Certification of a Justice’s Win. Activists Fear It’s “Dangerous for Democracy.”<br>—</p><p>The move gives the court time to consider a challenge by Republican Jefferson Griffin, who has cited debunked legal theories in his previous failed attempts to block Justice Allison Riggs’ reelection.</p><p><a href="https://propub.li/3WbuVMy" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>propub.li/3WbuVMy</a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#Law</a> <a href="/tags/northcarolina/" rel="tag">#NorthCarolina</a> <a href="/tags/democracy/" rel="tag">#Democracy</a> <a href="/tags/election/" rel="tag">#Election</a></p>
<p>"Counsel for plaintiffs in a copyright lawsuit filed against Meta allege that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the green light to the team behind the company’s Llama AI models to use a data set of pirated ebooks and articles for training."</p><p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/mark-zuckerberg-gave-metas-llama-team-the-ok-to-train-on-copyrighted-works-filing-claims/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/mark-zuckerberg-gave-metas-llama-team-the-ok-to-train-on-copyrighted-works-filing-claims/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/mark</span><span class="invisible">-zuckerberg-gave-metas-llama-team-the-ok-to-train-on-copyrighted-works-filing-claims/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/technews/" rel="tag">#TechNews</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/ai/" rel="tag">#AI</a> <a href="/tags/meta/" rel="tag">#meta</a> <a href="/tags/zuckerberg/" rel="tag">#zuckerberg</a></p>
<p>“The Federal Government Is Gone”: Under Trump, the Fight Against Extremist Violence Is Left Up to the States<br>—</p><p>As the White House redirects counterterrorism personnel and funds toward mass deportations, a state-level scramble is on to preserve efforts once supported by Washington. The result is a patchwork approach that leaves many areas uncovered.</p><p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-domestic-terrorism-extremism-states-michigan?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.propublica.org/article/trump-doj-domestic-terrorism-extremism-states-michigan?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.propublica.org/article/tru</span><span class="invisible">mp-doj-domestic-terrorism-extremism-states-michigan?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/terrorism/" rel="tag">#Terrorism</a> <a href="/tags/whitehouse/" rel="tag">#WhiteHouse</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/deportation/" rel="tag">#Deportation</a> <a href="/tags/doj/" rel="tag">#DOJ</a> <a href="/tags/extremism/" rel="tag">#Extremism</a> <a href="/tags/violence/" rel="tag">#Violence</a></p>
<p>You may have heard that <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.social/@Flipboard" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Flipboard</span></a></span> brought 250 publishers to the Fediverse this week. Here are just a few news outlets you might want to follow:</p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@AssociatedPress" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>AssociatedPress</span></a></span> </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@abc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>abc</span></a></span> </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@CBSNews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>CBSNews</span></a></span> </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>cbcnews</span></a></span> </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@globeandmail" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>globeandmail</span></a></span> </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@newyorktimes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>newyorktimes</span></a></span> </p><p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@WashPost" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>WashPost</span></a></span> </p><p>You can follow their entire profile, or just follow the topical Magazines that you're interested in. For example, if you want world news, follow <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@cbsnews/world-news-791cc5noz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>world-news-CBSNews</span></a></span>. Or if you want Canadian news, follow <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/canada-1akomc2pz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>canada-cbcnews</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="/tags/followfriday/" rel="tag">#FollowFriday</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#Media</a> <a href="/tags/flipboard/" rel="tag">#Flipboard</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a> <a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#Fediverse</a></p>
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<p>⭐️Museum Struggles, Strife And Attacks | Phone Box Community Museum | Museums Foster Empathy And Social Change | British Museum Offensive Use Of ‘Xizang’ | DNA Shows Columbus Brought Syphilis to Europe | More Museum News.</p><p><a href="http://www.globalmuseum.org" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">http://</span>www.globalmuseum.org</a> <a href="/tags/museums/" rel="tag">#museums</a> <a href="/tags/globalmuseum/" rel="tag">#globalmuseum</a> <a href="/tags/museumnews/" rel="tag">#museumnews</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/museumjobs/" rel="tag">#museumjobs</a> <a href="/tags/jobs/" rel="tag">#jobs</a> <a href="/tags/artgallery/" rel="tag">#artgallery</a></p>
<p>📣 It's been a while since we've federated a batch of publishers — so to make up for it, here are 250, and they're big ones. </p><p>Today, we're bringing names like <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@abc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>abc</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@RollingStone" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>RollingStone</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@forbes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>forbes</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@BleacherReport" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BleacherReport</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@NationalGeographic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>NationalGeographic</span></a></span> and <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@newyorktimes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>newyorktimes</span></a></span> to the fediverse. They join the 174 profiles we've already federated, which include everyone from <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@19thnews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>19thnews</span></a></span> to <span class="h-card"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@Vox" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Vox</span></a></span> </p><p>Here's a blogpost with more details on this latest batch of publications that cover news, business, cooking, home design, politics, sports, science and more. Follow their Magazine feeds if you're only interested in one topic, or their whole profiles if you want the lot. The spreadsheet below lists out all federated accounts.</p><p><a href="https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/flipboard-federates-250-publishers/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="about.flipboard.com/fediverse/flipboard-federates-250-publishers/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">about.flipboard.com/fediverse/</span><span class="invisible">flipboard-federates-250-publishers/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d</span><span class="invisible">/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/flipboard/" rel="tag">#Flipboard</a> <a href="/tags/federation/" rel="tag">#Federation</a> <a href="/tags/spreadmastodon/" rel="tag">#SpreadMastodon</a> <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#ActivityPub</a> <a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#Media</a> <a href="/tags/publishers/" rel="tag">#Publishers</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#Politics</a> <a href="/tags/sports/" rel="tag">#Sports</a> <a href="/tags/entertainment/" rel="tag">#Entertainment</a> <a href="/tags/food/" rel="tag">#Food</a> <a href="/tags/lifestyle/" rel="tag">#Lifestyle</a> <a href="/tags/science/" rel="tag">#Science</a></p>
<p>“All Our Future Money Is Gone”: The Impossible Task of Providing Child Care in Rural Illinois<br>—</p><p>Though the governor promised to make Illinois “the best state” to raise young children, child care continues to disappear. And, as one couple learned, there’s almost no help for those building a child care facility from the ground up.</p><p><a href="https://propub.li/4j8yNbg" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>propub.li/4j8yNbg</a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/illinois/" rel="tag">#Illinois</a> <a href="/tags/parenting/" rel="tag">#Parenting</a> <a href="/tags/children/" rel="tag">#Children</a> <a href="/tags/childcare/" rel="tag">#ChildCare</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a></p>
<p>Justice Department Sues Six of the Nation’s Largest Landlords in Effort to Stop Alleged Price-Fixing in Rental Markets<br>—</p><p>Federal prosecutors allege that the landlords have used RealPage pricing software to collude and artificially raise rents. The legal action is the latest development stemming from a 2022 ProPublica investigation.</p><p><a href="https://propub.li/40qESIN" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>propub.li/40qESIN</a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/housing/" rel="tag">#Housing</a> <a href="/tags/business/" rel="tag">#Business</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/doj/" rel="tag">#DOJ</a></p>
<p>The U.S. Department of Education has fined Michigan’s Baker College $2.5 million for years of “substantial misrepresentation” of career outcomes, following a 2022 ProPublica-Detroit Free Press report detailing the college’s low graduation rates and the heavy debt that many students shoulder.</p><p><a href="https://propub.li/4h1gRgK" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>propub.li/4h1gRgK</a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/college/" rel="tag">#College</a> <a href="/tags/education/" rel="tag">#Education</a> <a href="/tags/government/" rel="tag">#Government</a> <a href="/tags/debt/" rel="tag">#Debt</a></p>
<p>UPDATE: The Connecticut DMV and top state lawmakers have vowed to review towing laws after a CT Mirror and ProPublica investigation found that people’s cars can be sold just 15 days after they’re towed.</p><p><a href="https://propub.li/4h1Uw2E" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>propub.li/4h1Uw2E</a></p><p><a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/connecticut/" rel="tag">#Connecticut</a> <a href="/tags/towing/" rel="tag">#Towing</a> <a href="/tags/cars/" rel="tag">#Cars</a> <a href="/tags/poverty/" rel="tag">#Poverty</a> <a href="/tags/dmv/" rel="tag">#DMV</a></p>
<p>Happy new year, fedi friends and welcome to the fascinating world of 2025, which has already lasted approximately 15 months. Here’s a selection of stories from newsrooms with an active presence in the fediverse, plus a couple from our own desks.These include Meta employee reactions to their new policies (not good!), an exploration of the social worker shortage in Texas, an article on making peace with our younger selves, and a story for the ages about the man who infiltrated right-wing militia and shared his experiences with <span class="h-card"><a href="https://newsie.social/@ProPublica" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ProPublica</span></a></span>. Please follow all the newsrooms featured, click on their stories, boost them, subscribe, donate and support any way you can. <br>⤵️</p><p><a href="/tags/media/" rel="tag">#Media</a> <a href="/tags/journalism/" rel="tag">#Journalism</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#News</a> <a href="/tags/mastodonmigration/" rel="tag">#MastodonMigration</a> <a href="/tags/followfriday/" rel="tag">#FollowFriday</a></p>
<p>From our magazine: Over 72 hours, Austin police reported more than 70 overdose calls. Records from Travis County, which includes most of Austin, and neighboring Williamson County indicate that as many as 12 may have died. The culprit: a bad batch of crack cocaine. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-war-on-drug-users-austin-overdose-disaster/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.texasobserver.org/texas-war-on-drug-users-austin-overdose-disaster/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.texasobserver.org/texas-wa</span><span class="invisible">r-on-drug-users-austin-overdose-disaster/</span></a> </p><p><a href="/tags/warondrugs/" rel="tag">#WarOnDrugs</a> <a href="/tags/drugs/" rel="tag">#drugs</a> <a href="/tags/politics/" rel="tag">#politics</a> <a href="/tags/uspol/" rel="tag">#USpol</a> <a href="/tags/news/" rel="tag">#news</a> <a href="/tags/texas/" rel="tag">#Texas</a> <a href="/tags/law/" rel="tag">#law</a> <a href="/tags/criminaljustice/" rel="tag">#CriminalJustice</a> <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#health</a> <a href="/tags/addiction/" rel="tag">#addiction</a></p>