Posting about the news works only if you are both quick and right. Below: how to pick a story, what to add, and how fanout's Discover page turns a story into a draft you can edit.
Most people repost the headline. That adds nothing. Choose a story where you know something your audience does not, or can explain why it matters to them. If you have no angle, skip it. A late, thin post costs more than no post.
Being first is a small advantage and being wrong is a big cost. Open the source and read it before you post. A headline is often all a feed gives you, and headlines overstate. If you are not sure of a detail, leave it out or say what you do not know.
Check the date. Old stories resurface, and posting one as breaking news is an easy way to lose trust.
A short structure that works on most networks.
Discover is a page in the app for this. It shows trending stories by category: Top, Tech, Business, Science, World, Health, Entertainment and Sports. You can switch the language between English and Russian, and set the time range to the past 24 hours, week or month.
You can also search a topic and get up to 12 recent stories, newest first, with duplicates removed. A Trending label marks stories that are trending. Searching a topic does not create a watched source.
If you follow specific sources, the Watched sources tab keeps track of Telegram channels, X accounts, RSS feeds, topic searches and presets, and drafts appear there as news lands. An X account source needs a connected X account.
Select a story and pick an angle: a short brief, a takeaway, or a discussion prompt. You can add a note about your audience. fanout drafts a post from the story details and appends the source link.
Google News often provides only a headline, and the page labels this. The drafting is instructed not to invent details, but you should still open the story. Edit the draft with your own take, then send it to the composer, where you pick networks and publish or schedule. Nothing is published automatically.
Read the source, not just the excerpt. Make sure your take is yours. Put the link in. Then adapt the length for each network, which the composer handles with per-network versions. If you post about news often, keep a short list of sources you trust and check them first, so you spend your time on the take and not on hunting for the story.
When you generate a draft, you choose how it is framed. A brief states what happened in a sentence or two and links the source. A takeaway spells out the practical point the facts support. A discussion draft ends by asking your audience something specific.
Pick the angle that matches your account. If people follow you for analysis, use the takeaway. If your followers talk back, use the discussion angle. If you run a news account, a brief is often enough. You can also set an audience note of up to 300 characters, such as "founders at small software companies", so the draft speaks to them.
Do not post a claim you have not verified because it is already spreading. Do not quote a number from a headline without checking the article it came from. Do not copy the headline word for word as your own post; it makes your account look like an aggregator.
Also remember that a draft is only as good as the information it had. If the page tells you only a headline was available, treat the draft as a starting sentence and fill in the facts from the article yourself.
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In fanout's Discover page, browse trending stories by category or search a topic. You can then draft a post from any story.
fanout can draft a post from a story in a brief, takeaway or discussion style, and it appends the source link. You edit the draft before anything is published.
Yes. A link lets readers check the story and signals you are not inventing details. Discover adds the source URL to the draft.
No. It produces a draft that opens in the composer, and nothing is published until you do it.
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Last updated 2026-10-25.