Carly LyddiardApr 8, 2017
If #Mastodon stabilises in the broader world, I'm wondering how we might verify news sources. Would each media org set up an instance for their reporters maybe, so we can tell them apart from imposters? I can't imagine an independently moderated "news" instance without the verification process being open to bias or misuse.
Show threadinmysocks (version: awoo)

@carly_io that doesn't really fit with what mastodon is. There is no real method of verification or anything like that.

This isn't twitter and probably can't be made to be like twitter in that way.

Apr 8, 2017 at 2:31amWeb
Show threadCarly LyddiardApr 8, 2017
@inmysocks *nod* I understand and don't want it to be like the birdplace. Speaking broadly, a person will want to be able to verify the source of information when that source claims to be reputable. People will try to find ways to do that on any platform where media orgs publish. I suspect it would be achieved in mastodon's universe by media orgs running their own instances so we can identify their reporters by instance name. I'm interested to see if/how it happens.