Over the weekend, a tweaked Twitter label was affixed to several accounts belonging to news outlets that receive some state support, including the BBC, PBS, NPR and Voice of America.
After its decision to slap National Public Radio with a “state-affiliated media” label drew sharp criticism this week, Twitter is whistling a different tune, tweaking the label to read “government funded” in a quiet change made late Saturday.
“The BBC is, and always has been, independent,” the national broadcaster continued. “We are funded by the British public through the license fee.” Prior to Musk’s takeover of Twitter, the “state-affiliated” label was associated most closely with propaganda outlets like China’s Xinhua News and Russia’s RT and Sputnik agencies. John Lansing, NPR’s President and CEO, formally protested the tag when it was placed on the outlet’s Twitter account, which has 8.8 million followers, on Tuesday.
that they would not be tweeting from the account until the issue was resolved, but clarified that it wasn’t a “boycott.”
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