Muck Rack: Journalists owe it to their readers not to be phished

When journalists don’t demonstrate the same skepticism of phishing links on Twietter as they do for claims in press releases, they undermine their credibility by inviting spam on their followers. And if the idea is that journalists carry credibility from one medium to the next, they’re losing their reputation among readers when they don’t make informed social media usage…

via muckrack:

Over the past few weeks we’ve received direct messages from dozens of journalists’ compromised Twitter accounts perpetuating a phishing scam, which prompted us to make this tweet:

We’ve received over 10 DMs from journalists asking “You seen what this person is saying about you?” Our answer: No! (It’s a phishing scam.)