If you're going to have a verified link on your Mastodon profile, PLEASE verify through your own site if you have one. Don't rely on third party verification sites.

I'm currently trying to work out if the broadcaster NPR owns
a particular account, but I have no idea if it's real because it's verified by some random third party site. If it really was NPR, why wouldn't they just verify through their own site https://npr.org?

Third party verification causes more problems than it solves 👎