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.
@joshix @schmittlauch @andrewt but that's up to the linked resource. If the linked resource is not trustworthy, then it's just good old misinformation on the internet. Not great, but nothing new. That's where the reader has to decide, if they trust the author of the toot or the resource.
But if the link goes to a trustworthy source (like the BBC), I should be able to trust the preview, regardless of who posted it. Who posted a link shouldn't have to be part of my threat model.
@weddige @schmittlauch @andrewt yeah and mastodon does that better than twitter
@joshix @weddige @schmittlauch @andrewt
Well, eX-Twitter has been hosting *advertising* that links to malware. And does not seem to have any interest in removing or avoiding such. So there's that (too). 🙄
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