Mastodon absolutely needs more journalists. We should not have millions of people boosting one another’s ideas without a solid contingent of people in here professionally trained to vet stories, check facts, and use best practices for sharing news. It is, imo, an urgent issue & critical for the ongoing success of the fediverse
@seachanger What makes you think that journalists will "vet stories, check facts, and use best practices for sharing news"? They certainly haven't demonstrated that to my satisfaction. They didn't help end the pandemic or prevent lies about the election from spreading. They didn't stop misinformation from spreading all over Twitter and Facebook.
All they do is copy and paste press releases.
In my opinion, we don't need them here.
