Тош (always grumpy): Usually linking to a social account from your website is a good form of verification albeit not visible unless people know the true website and to check. To be honest someone could buy a domain that's one letter off that would pass as the real deal if someone's not checking for typos.

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.”

How do we get more journalists here?

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]!

UPDATE TO THIS 3-MONTH OLD POST: here's a faq on bluesky for journalists, which includes a waitlist form too so people no longer have to email bluesky's press inbox! blueskyweb.xyz/blog/press-faq

Bluesky for Journalistsblueskyweb.xyz

Is having the website in the profile enough for verification? We want to keep the username/handle we have on the other place for when all our followers join us here, and broadcastingscotland.scot is a bit long(er) for our handle. It is easy to add a txt record to DNS if that would work.

Welcome to Broadcasting Scotland - Broadcasting Scotlandbroadcastingscotland.scot Broadcasting Scotland is a new broadcaster for Scotland, producing programmes from a Scottish perspective, targeting audiences, inside Scotland and beyond

good q! we're discussing other forms of verification too but for now, the domain is the best way to show that this is the real account

Usually linking to a social account from your website is a good form of verification albeit not visible unless people know the true website and to check. To be honest someone could buy a domain that's one letter off that would pass as the real deal if someone's not checking for typos.

So yeah at the end of the day due diligence always falls on to the end user. But definitely at the very least linking to your socials from your known domain is a good method to verify the profiles being legit.

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