Given how none of these names rang a bell with me, I had to see what made them "blue-check" worthy ...

Nicole Schuman is a content manager for PRNEWS.

Anjali Kumar has worked as a Senior Counsel at Google NY, where she was a commercial and product attorney on areas ranging from Google X to advertising technology to YouTube.

Craig Needles hosts a podcasts that boasts about "high profile news makers, intelligent discussion, on the topics of the day."

Jordan Chariton was the first investigative reporter hired by The Young Turks network, and now works with a media outlet called Status Coup, which features "in-field and investigative reporting around the country from both them and other reporters."

Nnedi Okorafor is a Nigerian-American author of Africanfuturism and Africanjujuism for children and adults. She has a MA in journalism.

Evan F. Moore is an adjunct faculty member in the Journalism program in the College of Communication at DePaul University.

The rest were an assortment of actors, fashion designers, authors, and sports reporters. I don't automatically expect them to pay attention, but the ones listed above? Shows what a joke our education system and media have become.