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]!
doesn't need to be a higher-up unless eg an audience editor wants to chat! probably easiest for just one person to reach out and our team can send them invite codes to share in slack, so that each journo doesn't have to separately email :)
Ah this reminds me, there are a handful of real ones I know well at independent publications in India, they gave me the online equivalent of pitying looks when I said they should keep an open mind about bsky lol. I’ll poke them too…
