Brandon

The new post on ig/tt is not on that other page, so they might have decided not to use it anymore for cross posting. But I’ve mirrored the new post on the telegram channel: https://t.me/jwpressroom/17 (along with all the other posts too!)

I was watching the new JWB with the Gilead, and an experience from a woman in Asia (approx 40 mins in): Notice she first used Google to eventually access our website and was learning things, before she even knew she was on JW.org ! So to those doubting this pilot program: let’s never forget how many only find our website using this “secular” web portal / search engine (Google). And let’s also remember that many people don’t even use search engines anymore, they simply receive links through various alternative “portals” like Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok, etc. certainly we wouldn’t be bothered to find out someone used Google to reach our website. Let’s not be bothered if they use social portals to reach it too. edit: almost missed another important point. Transcript: “so I joined social media groups that discussed changing religions.” She did that before using Google. Really drives the point home!

https://www.ableassist.org/en/ has not only official transcripts but also they manually transcribe the audio descriptions of our videos. Lots of accessibility tools to make our official content more readily available.

The first 3 posts to our social media’s were essentially links to JW.org pages, but the post today takes you to https://spectator.com/article/ukraines-jehovahs-witnesses-are-refusing-to-go-to-war/ perhaps we’ll be linking out to JW stuff in other news outlets more than we ever used to (which was very rarely)

On a related note I recently discovered a growing pro-JW subreddit. It’s at r/JWJehovahsWitnesses

Did they say why it's gone?

Why don’t they post links to the correct accounts on JW.org 🤔 seems like it would solve a whole lot…

From our account? Please elaborate

If we have any non-witness acquaintances who work in media or certain academic fields, it would be good to mention the new Global Communications/Pressroom, and let them know they can follow it via ig and tt it’s nice that witnesses want to “elevate” the accounts, but ultimately we want this to be an outreach and ministry towards those in the world, especially those in the 3 categories mentioned on the GC page it might also be of interest to non witnesses who (1) are interested in freedom of religion and (2) are already using one of the two platforms we’re now on

The first post is a 35 sec video with caption “JW Pressroom is the official source for breaking news, legal developments, religious freedom reports, story leads, and other newsworthy updates about Jehovah's Witnesses from around the world.” The second is a 6-image slideshow (mostly just text embedded in images), with caption “After carefully reviewing Jehovah’s Witnesses’ Bible-based beliefs and practices, Norway’s Supreme Court rejected the government’s claims and ruled that the Witnesses are in full compliance with Norwegian and international law. The government must pay nearly 11,864,000 kroner ($1,284,000 U.S.) in legal costs and millions of kroner in unlawfully withheld grants. The decision is final and cannot be appealed.” for those who don’t use Instagram or TikTok, I’ve mirrored these posts on telegram. It looks like the organization is also posting these through their third official link (although that could change if they switch providers) which is at: https://t-sml.mtrbio.com/public/smartlink/pressroom It looks like all these avenues (which may include X and/or others in the future) is mainly to get people with “status” in society such as govt officials, academic researchers, and the media, to more readily visit the relatively new section of our official website: https://www.jw.org/en/global-communications/ - the key here is this Global Communications page. Even the new “JW Pressroom” url simply takes you to the Global Communications page.

It’s not one of our official sites if that’s what you’re asking. It’s the personal project of JP @bvr

??? but that is in fact the official handle… our account includes a single underscore you may wish to ask the mods to edit or delete this comment. You could really throw off people here from finding the correct account.

if anyone is wondering why the official Tik Tok page includes a link to a page on the domain mtrbio.com, this appears to be a social media tool owned by Metricool, possibly to help with analytics. They also use mtr.cool domain.

Many have heard nothing through their meeting and may confuse the wording of people here saying “don’t forget to do x y z” as though it was someone repeating a reminder of the slave. It would be better to write something like “if you’re comfortable using that social network, you can follow it” — if the slave doesn’t tell us to like and subscribe, we need to word our own opinions more carefully.

Please stop writing this… when you get the announcement at the meeting, you’ll look foolish for encouraging witnesses to do this.