yeah imo for journalists who write for multiple publications it'd be good to see their account "verified" by a TXT record from each domain where they're a reporter in good standing
similarly for faculty at prestigious universities, seeing their verified affiliation is useful both for humans and for feed algos, even if they also have their own domain
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