journalists are (one of) the backbones of social media — having a space for breaking news and real-time communication is incredibly crucial for crises, information dissemination, and more
and sure, political discourse can come along with "scrutiny and negativity," but what isn't political
Direct from Mosseri: they DON’T want to encourage politics and hard news posting on Threads, and the “scrutiny, negativity…or integrity risks that come along with them.”
we've been reaching out to & been in contact with a bunch of newsrooms (including local news) but if you have personal contacts at news orgs, please have them email [email protected]!
One thing you might try is creating a journalist donation form like the folks did for science... If you asked them they may also be able to help you in some way. Good luck
bsky.app/profile/pkpd...
I get a bunch of requests from code donors for codes to go to artists, photographers, journalists, writers, etc., so if anyone in those groups wants, I can get codes to them (or can help duplicate my code donate/request form for those purposes).
