NPR Quits Twitter Over “Inaccurate & Misleading” Government-Funded Media Label

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Twitter has removed labels denoting “Government-Funded Media” for news outlets NPR, PBS, the BBC and others after criticisms from the organizations that the label is not and accurate representations of their editorial independence.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Twitter is no longer labeling any accounts as “state-affiliated media” or “government-funded media,” a change that comes after organizations including NPR and PBS objected to the descriptions from the Elon Musk-owned social network and have suspended their activity on Twitter in protest. According to NPR reporter Bobby Allyn, when he emailed Musk to inquire about the decision to drop media labels, the CEO replied, “This was Walter Isaacson’s suggestion.” Isaacson, who has penned biographies of Steve Jobs and Benjamin Franklin, is working on a book about Musk. As of this writing, NPR (8.8 million followers) and PBS (2.2 million) have not resumed posting to their Twitter accounts since suspending activity earlier this month.

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stop using the social media platform in protest.NPR said the move came late Thursday night, when its Twitter account saw the “government-funded” label disappear.Twitter also dropped the “state-affiliated” identifiers it had used to designate outlets like Russia’s RT and Sputnik and China’s Xinhua.The policy page describing the labels also disappeared from Twitter’s website, NPR noted. The change in the labeling system came the same day Twitter finally removed blue “verification” checkmarks from journalists’, celebrities’ and influencers’ accounts if they did not pay a monthly fee.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor The squeaky wheel gets the Twitter blue check-mark, it seems. After Twitter’s mass revocation Thursday of thousands of “legacy” verified blue check-marks, carrying out owner Elon Musk’s long-promised purge of the “corrupt” system, several high-profile accounts still had the iconic blue badges… even though they evidently aren’t paying for Twitter Blue (the subscription service whose perks now include a blue check-mark). Those included NBA superstar LeBron James, actor William Shatner and author Stephen King — each of whom had tweeted that they wouldn’t pay for Twitter Blue or had complained about Musk’s switch in the verification program.

last month said that there’s absolutely no way he’d pay somehow still have one. And when you click it, you’re informed that “This account is verified because they are subscribed to Twitter Blue and verified their phone number.”Shortly after, author Stephen King turned out to also have one too.

blue checks that helped verify their identity and distinguish them from impostors on the Elon Musk-owned social media platform.After several false starts, Twitter began making good on its promise Thursday to remove the blue checks from accounts that don’t pay a monthly fee to keep them. Twitter had about 300,000 verified users under the original blue-check system — many of them journalists, athletes and public figures.

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PBS has joined NPR in closing down shop on Twitter after the Elon Musk-owned social media platform dubbed it “Government-funded Media,” slapping the tag to all its Tweets.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor PBS said it has suspended posting to Twitter after Elon Musk’s social network pinned a “government-funded media” descriptor to its primary account. The public TV broadcaster joins NPR in ceasing Twitter activity following the Twitter changes, which the organizations say inaccurately represent them. “PBS stopped tweeting from our account when we learned of the change and we have no plans to resume at this time,” a rep said in a statement to Variety. “We are continuing to monitor the ever-changing situation closely.” PBS, which currently has 2.2 million Twitter followers, says that U.S. federal funding provides about 15% of the revenue for the public television system. According to the org, over the course of a year, 86% of all U.S. television households — representing more than 230 million people — watch PBS programming.

decrying the label as one used “to designate official state mouthpieces and propaganda outlets in countries such as Russia and China.””NPR CEO John Lansing said Wednesday that the decision came down to maintaining NPR’s credibility. “The downside, whatever the downside, doesn’t change that fact,” Lansing said in an interview via NPR.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor National Public Radio is suspending all activity on Twitter effective immediately, after the public radio broadcaster said the Elon Musk-owned platform’s “government-funded media” label on its account falsely implies NPR is not editorially independent of the U.S. government. Last week, Twitter added a label to NPR’s primary account that says it is “US state-affiliated media,” which CEO John Lansing slammed as “unacceptable.” The social network later modified that to say NPR is “government-funded media.” According to NPR, on average, less than 1% of its annual operating budget comes in the form of grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and federal agencies and departments.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter has wrongly labeled the BBC as being “government funded.”