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Today, we’re announcing the second phase of our Flipboard federation test: Flipboard Magazines are coming to the Fediverse! Now, you’ll be able to follow content from 1,000 Magazines, organized by themes and topics — so you can get FanSided’s Los Angeles Lakers stories, but nothing about the Yankees. Take a look at @mike’s post, which explains all you need to know about this.

medium.com/@mmccue/federating-

Medium · Federating Flipboard Magazines - Mike McCue - MediumBy Mike McCue

@Flipboard @mike

Have you dropped the far right publications yet?

@kevinrns @Flipboard We have publications from across the political spectrum but we do not allow hate speech, misinformation, nazis, racism, transphobia., etc.

@mike That's quite a claim. How exactly do you ensure this?

@kevinrns @Flipboard

Mike McCue

@Defiance @kevinrns @Flipboard Yes. We ensure this through a tremendous amount of human and algorithmic moderation that, while not perfect, has scaled nicely over the past 14 years as we've built Flipboard. WRT publications, we manually screen domains before they are able to be recommended algorithmically. We also explicitly disallow domains that we have identified as having hate speech, nazis, racism, transphobia etc. As they say in computer science, "Garbage in, garbage out" so we work to proactively prevent toxic domains from ever entering our algorithms rather than trying to reactively deal with individual posts all the time which is a losing battle.

It's not a perfect system so we also rely on user reporting and take action without equivocation when appropriate.

@mike Thanks for the detailed answer. Much appreciated. And very good to hear you have both human and algos on the task.
@kevinrns @Flipboard

@Defiance @mike @Flipboard

Yes. The effort is appreciated, necessary.