{"id":645614,"date":"2024-12-01T00:48:34","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T21:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bluesky-promises-more-verification-and-an-aggressive-approach-to-impersonation\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T00:48:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T21:48:34","slug":"bluesky-promises-more-verification-and-an-aggressive-approach-to-impersonation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bluesky-promises-more-verification-and-an-aggressive-approach-to-impersonation\/","title":{"rendered":"#Bluesky promises more verification and an \u2018aggressive\u2019 approach to impersonation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As more celebrities and popular influencers join Bluesky, the fast-growing social media<\/a> service has been facing more concerns around impersonation and verified identity.<\/p>\n

The Bluesky Safety team posted<\/a> Friday that the company has updated its impersonation policy to be \u201cmore aggressive,\u201d adding that \u201cimpersonation and handle-squatting accounts will be removed.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company said it should be able to act on impersonation reports more quickly because it has quadrupled the size of its moderation team, though there\u2019s still \u201ca large backlog of moderation reports due to an influx of new users.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anecdotally, over the past few weeks I\u2019ve noticed a growing number of Bluesky posts asking, \u201cIs this a real person or a parody account?\u201d with no definitive answer in the replies. Other users have also begun putting together their own verification lists and badges<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One reason for the confusion: Bluesky lacks a verified user badge like the one popularized on Twitter (now known X, which itself replaced the old verification with a paid subsc programription). Instead, it relies on other signals, like verified domains in user handles, to signal the trustworthiness of an account \u2014 for example, you can tell someone is actually affiliated with Bluesky if their handle includes the \u201cbsky.team\u201d domain.<\/p>\n

On that front, Bluesky also said it\u2019s \u201cworking behind the scenes to help many organizations and high-profile individuals set up their verified domain handles.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for parodies and fan accounts, the company said they\u2019re allowed, \u201cbut they must clearly label themselves in both the display name and bio to help others know the account isn\u2019t official.\u201d And Bluesky said \u201cidentity churning\u201d is not allowed, so \u201cif you set up an impersonation account just to gain followers and switch to a different identity that is no longer impersonation to keep that account, your account will be removed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber said earlier this week that the company could eventually do more work to verify accounts while also enabling other app<\/a>s or organizations to provide their own verification: \u201cThey can choose to trust us \u2014 the Bluesky team\u2019s verification \u2014 or they could do their own.\u201d<\/p>\n

Similarly, the Bluesky Safety team concluded its updates by saying, \u201cWe also hear your feedback: users want more ways to verify their identity beyond domain verification. We\u2019re exploring additional options to enhance account verification, and we hope to share more shortly.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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As more celebrities and popular influencers join Bluesky, the fast-growing social media service has been facing more concerns around impersonation and verified identity. The Bluesky Safety team posted Friday that the company has updated its impersonation policy to be \u201cmore aggressive,\u201d adding that \u201cimpersonation and handle-squatting accounts will be removed.\u201d The company said it should…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":645615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/bluesky_media_kit_banner_4.jpg?resize=1200,900","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[151568,31059,70917],"class_list":["post-645614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-bluesky","tag-social","tag-startups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}