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Flipboard is the latest company to end its presence on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. In a Medium post<\/a> published Tuesday, the company said it would no longer be \u201cactively monitoring or posting updates on X,\u201d save for the occasional retweet. Instead, Flipboard will be refocusing its efforts on Mastodon and other open social platforms.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The reasons for Flipboard\u2019s departure from X appear to be two-fold: X\u2019s more lax moderation policies under Elon Musk\u2019s leadership, which has led to a sharp spike<\/a> in hate speech and misinformation; and Flipboard\u2019s goal of working with federated social media services. Over the past several months, Flipboard has joined a growing list<\/a> of companies, including Mozilla, Tumblr, and Medium, that are using the ActivityPub protocol to integrate with federated platforms. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cAs widely reported, Twitter\/X\u2019s rollback of moderation policies has led to a rise in harmful rhetoric and hate speech and its platform decisions have advanced false narratives and disinformation. These changes run contrary to our values and so we\u2019ve decided to invest in other, healthier environments,\u201d Flipboard wrote in a message posted to Medium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Flipboard and X\u2019s ties began to fray<\/a> in April, when X shut off<\/a> its free API, breaking the sharing function that Flipboard used to publish content. Instead, X has urged companies to join its paid API<\/a> tier \u2014 for which an Enterprise plan was reported by Platformer<\/em> to cost as much as $42,000 a month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The company also launched its own podcast about the open social web, Dot Social<\/em>, <\/em>which will be hosted by Flipboard CEO Mike McCue. The first episode<\/a>, published today, features Techdirt<\/em> founder Mike Masnick. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n