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]!
You're serious about getting reporters here, right? Because there are a whole bunch who I can reach out to. I've been using some of the invites I have gotten access to for that anyway.
To be clear, I'm talking credible people, obviously.
Hi! Well, not sure if you were able to scroll up and read that thread? I think it's easy for journalists to get invites now.
Is that the group you want to see more of? Or do you have other ideas? Groups I know of who are actively redistributing invites include: disability activists and scientists.
