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Followers
24.3K
Account age
3 yrs
💰 Suggested sponsorship rate
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📊 Post engagement
28
Avg engagement / post
0.1%
Engagement vs followers
May 2023
On Bluesky since
🔥 Top post: A Western New York school district has halted its plans to place · 131 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
21.9 / week
Posts daily — consistently active for a campaign window.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
75×
Follows 324 back. A strong ratio — an audience that follows them, not a follow-for-follow network.
Recent posts
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New York law allows two bodies to approve new charter schools, but it only gives one of them the power to overrule the other.
Our analysis found that's happened more than 50 times in the last decade, intensifying the state's charter schoo…
Immigration agents are stalking the workers of the Sungrow tomato plant in Ontario, New York.
They have lurked in the parking lot in unmarked cars before dawn.
They have shown up at the motel where many of the workers were staying.
A Western New York school district is evaluating whether to proceed with deploying an AI teaching assistant this fall.
We asked to interview Sally, the AI teaching assistant's virtual avatar.
The creator, Realbotix, agreed.
Here's the c…
In a new analysis, New York Focus found dozens of charter schools earned approval to open, expand, relocate, merge, or receive early renewal over the last decade despite being rejected by state education officials.
Here's how.
Here's why a bill to restrict the use of paraquat didn't receive a vote in the legislature this year and what it means for residents of “Parkinson’s Valley” — and other parts of the state just like it — while they wait for Albany to act.
“A lot of people don’t have my persistence and are not going to go and seek a journalist to write a story about wrongdoing,” Brown told New York Focus.
“How many people are really going to do something like that? Very few.”
Between February and mid-May, Amazon made five payments totaling $5,001,377 to the Five Borough Jobs Campaign, new disclosures show.
In turn, the Five Borough Jobs Campaign embarked on a monthslong media blitz under the banner of New York…
ICE and Border Patrol agents are stalking the workers of the Sungrow tomato plant in Ontario, New York.
“They were like alligators. They swooped in and devoured them,” one worker said.
Workers still there say they’re living in “Jason Bou…
Two years ago, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office almost entirely ignored a dozen phone calls and five emails from the victim, Pamela Brown, she said.
After New York Focus reached out for comment last October, a spokesperson…
NEW: In a statement provided to New York Focus, Realbotix CEO Andrew Kiguel told us: “We fully respect any decision the school makes.”
“We want the program to be demonstrably safe, fully district-approved, and strongly supported by teache…
New York Focus sat down with Eli Northrup to discuss his career, his campaign, and why he’s bullish about New York’s criminal justice reform movement.
🦋 Handle & authenticity
✅ Domain-verified
@nysfocus.com
The handle is the domain nysfocus.com. On Bluesky a domain handle proves the owner controls that website — so this is verifiably the real nysfocus.com account, not an impersonator.
On Bluesky since
May 2023
An early adopter from the invite-only beta (before the Feb 2024 public launch) — an original, established account.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Bluesky in 2023 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 28 views per post.
📤Posts about 21.9× per week.
🏅Earned the 10K Followers for passing 10K followers.
🛡️ Audience credibility
58/100
Fair
Credibility score
81%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 81% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.1% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Organic base — far more followers than accounts it follows.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
New York Focus is a nonprofit newsroom investigating power in the Empire State.
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