The decision comes a week after the social media platform began labeling the network as “US state-affiliated media.”
fit that criteria . Since NPR is very clearly not state-affiliated media, the tag has since been changed to “government-funded media.”
of its funding from the federal government, though member stations do get a higher chunk of their revenue from local and federal government sources.reach out directly to Musk to demand the tag be taken down. Musk argued that he was trying to provide “maximum transparency” for platform users and said he is personally a fan of their work. “I should note that I follow BBC News on Twitter, because I think it is among the least biased,” he said in the exchange.after the exchange in which he said Twitter could change its label to “publicly funded” to reflect that its funding comes from public licensing fees, not the government.
of tweets that included Substack links. While Substack is not itself a news organization, it is home to newsletters and blogs of many prominent independent journalists who have come to depend on Twitter for promotion and audience-building. These would seem to be the exact types of journalists Musk would want to support (and has,
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