Bluesky is expanding its moderation team as the platform grows New verification and impersonation measures are coming Bluesky says there will be more to report on these features soon
There are tons of users on Bluesky – many of them are Elon Musks
Now Bluesky has announced it will step up its efforts to ensure accounts are run by the people they claim to be. The team apparently works “behind the scenes” to get organizations and “high-level people” verified so that no one is deceived.
The larger a social network gets, the more problematic identity theft and verification become: If the President of the United States posts something, you want to be sure it’s the President and not a teenager on the other side of the world.
Bluesky says it is “removing accounts for identity theft and handle squatting” and is now quadrupling the size of its moderation team to weed out users who are not who they say they are – and potentially scam other users.
More to follow
Bluesky says it is committed to user safety (Image credit: Future)
While parody, satire and fan accounts are permitted on Bluesky, they must be identified as such – both in the username and in the account bio. However, identity churning (changing your identity to mislead other users) is not permitted.
At the moment we don’t know much about how the Bluesky verification process will work – whether verified users will receive badges, for example, or what methods will be used to verify them – but we expect more updates in the near future.
The Bluesky team is seeking feedback on what might and might not work during verification. Currently, you can partially verify yourself by adding a custom domain name to your Bluesky account – but that’s not for everyone.
“As more and more users join Bluesky, we know how important it is to identify which accounts are real,” the new Bluesky post explains. “Users deserve peace of mind that the accounts they interact with are authentic.”
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