So it turns out the geniuses over at Bluesky trust the client app to fetch, and honestly report, webpage metadata for preview cards, so with a little tinkering in the debug tools you can post whatever news stories you like and they look exactly the same as real ones.

https://bsky.app/profile/andrewt.net/post/3ljo2dja62224

Andrew (@andrewt.net)

Let's see what happens if I spoof the article metadata from the backend... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/69420

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Well, at least you got 5 millions out of it. 😏