The Conversation aims to provide trustworthy, research-based news wherever people are getting news. So we thought we’d take a moment to share where we are and how to find us, besides our daily and weekly newsletters and our own website.

On social media, we’ve recently seen a surge of readers following us on BlueSky, where we were one of the first news organizations to start an account. Among other growing social networks, you can find us on Mastodon, Nostr and Truth Social. Among more established platforms, you can follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X.

If you have an iPhone or iPad, there are two ways you can tell Apple News that you’d like to see our stories: Tap on the “Following” icon at lower right, search “The Conversation” and tap the + button next to our name. You can also go directly to our channel page, click on the three-dot icon at upper right and choose “Follow channel.” Once you read a story from The Conversation, you can tap the tiny thumbs-up icon at the top of the screen and choose “Suggest more.”

If you use the Google News app, go to our profile page and tap the star at the top of the screen, or tap the “Following” icon at the bottom of the app screen and search for “The Conversation”.

Yahoo! News is one of our largest republishers, and if you use its news app, you can find all our stories by searching for “The Conversation” in the search box. If you tap the heart button on one of our stories, that will teach the algorithm to show you more.

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Thanks to the support of readers like you, we are able to reach a growing audience in these apps, on social media and, of course, on our website. Please donate today to help us reach even more people with reliable, research-based information. Thank you.

Below you’ll find our most popular stories of 2024 on two different apps – and also the stories produced by our investigative unit, many of which did very well on social media.

Joel Abrams

Director of Digital Strategy and Outreach

Yahoo! News
Losing a connection to your family, intentionally or not, is tragic. catscandotcom/E+ via Getty Images

As more Americans go ‘no contact’ with their parents, they live out a dilemma at the heart of Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’

Jeanette Tran, Drake University

The advantages of being a part of a family are so obvious that losing that affiliation, intentionally or not, is tragic.

Apple News
Cataract surgery removes the clouded lens of the eye and replaces it with a new, clear lens. Ivan-balvan/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Are you one of the millions about to have cataract surgery? Here’s what ophthalmologists say you need to know

Allan Steigleman, University of Florida; Elizabeth M. Hofmeister, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Typically, cataract surgeries are painless and significantly restore vision.

Investigations
Exxon Mobil Corp.’s campus in East Baton Rouge Parish, left, received millions in tax abatements to the detriment of local schools, right.

How tax breaks strangle American schools − billions of dollars that could help students vanish from budgets, especially hurting districts that serve poor students

Christine Wen, Texas A&M University; Danielle McLean, The Conversation; Kevin Welner, University of Colorado Boulder; Nathan Jensen, The University of Texas at Austin

An estimated 95% of US cities provide economic development tax incentives to woo corporate investors, taking billions away from schools.