@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.