Andrew CoutsNov 5, 2022

Early worries I have as a journalist using Mastodon for #journalism:

1) Subpoenas & source protection: You're at the mercy of whoever operates your instance. I'm guessing most smaller instance admins aren't also lawyering up to protect newsgathering.

2) The owner of your instance can read your DMs. Be careful.

3) Publishers could effectively verify journalists by running instances from their official domains. They could surveil their journalists there too. Not every publisher is ethical.

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@couts Your worries are correct and it's a good analysis of the situation. Remember also though that all of Twitter's engineering staff also has access to their production data, including DMs presumably, with no logging or audit system.

This isn't speculation: it's from mudge's whistle-blower testimony.

Nov 6, 2022 at 2:18amMastodon for Android
Show threadAndrew CoutsNov 6, 2022
@sharp Indeed!