Jorge Caballero, MDMastodon is the best social network for breaking news from trusted sources. I wish the Mastodon Core project would prioritize features such as global search that would make it easier to discover boots-on-the-ground reporters and OSINT (and no, hashtags don't work so spare me the proselytizing)
The Steel Rat@DataDrivenMD But it is difficult to find users that post breaking legitimate news links
skry@thesteelrat @DataDrivenMD The best tip I’ve found for following journalists: https://mastodon.social/@skry/110646546949221054
You can also pick and choose of course.
MrRant@skry @thesteelrat @DataDrivenMD I’ve done this with some I know of. But it isn’t the most efficient way. Maybe if there was a way to find folks that doesn’t rely on a google doc.
@mrrant @thesteelrat @DataDrivenMD I don’t understand what’s inefficient about automated following of hundreds of verified journalists at once with a CSV upload, but reading the local timeline on journa.host is the other good suggestion in this thread. https://journa.host/public/local
Search is coming, but it can’t be more efficient than either of those methods. There’s also https://news.feedseer.com/ for checking trends and https://mastodon.social/explore
