Bluesky vows to crackdown on impersonator accounts
Bluesky has issued a statement regarding the rise in fake profiles on the micro-blogging site.
Bluesky has vowed to crack down on impersonator accounts.
Many users of Elon Musk's micro-blogging app X/Twitter have been jumping ship to the rival site - which was founded by Jack Dorsey in 2019 as a research initiative at Twitter, before becoming an independent company in 2021 - but its been plagued by fake profiles impersonating organisations, including the BBC.
Bluesky is now vowing to improve the way it identifies such accounts with its verification process.
Bluesky said: “With more users joining Bluesky, we know how important it is to identify which accounts are real. Users deserve confidence that the accounts they interact with are authentic.”
As of December 2, Bluesky has 23.8 million registered users.
Bluesky recently vowed to never use users' content for AI training - but it cannot guarantee that "outside developers" will "respect these settings".
The site asks users to specify that they do not give their consent for their data to be used.
However, they are still investigating the legal parameters of outside developers "crawling their data" and using it as they please.
A series of posts on the app's X page read: "Bluesky is an open and public social network, much like websites on the Internet itself. Websites can specify whether they consent to outside companies crawling their data with a robots.txt file, and we’re investigating a similar practice here."
It continued: "For example, this might look like a setting that allows Bluesky users to specify whether they consent to outside developers using their content in AI training datasets
"Bluesky won’t be able to enforce this consent outside of our systems. It will be up to outside developers to respect these settings."
Bluesky added: "We’re having ongoing conversations with engineers and lawyers and we hope to have more updates to share on this shortly!"
