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Burning questions (and some answers) about Bluesky’s new verification system
Bluesky's launch of a verification system has raised a slew of questions among its user base from who will be picked — and why — to what outside
After a leak last week, Bluesky officially announced Monday the arrival of its verification system, which is designed to ensure that notable people are who they say they are on the social network. Instead, people were struggling to understand how news organizations like CNN, The WSJ, and Bloomberg received the blue-and-white verification badge but others like Politico or MSNBC did not (as of the time of writing! As one example, Hunter Walker and Guan Yang have been running a labeler to unofficially verify a range of diverse media outlets, large and small, national and local.
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