####ing Musk
Twitter added a warning to NPR’s Twitter account on Tuesday, declaring it as “state-affiliated media,” a label that’s typically been reserved for foreign media outlets that represent the official views of the government, like Russia’s RT and China’s Xinhua.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnov...h=76ebd687635c
White House defends NPR after Twitter labels outlet ‘state-affiliated media’
Critics are blasting Elon Musk for turning the once influential platform into “a propaganda outfit to fit with his political views”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2314885.html
NPR’s president and CEO John Lansing said in a statement that the company was “disturbed” to see the label, “a description that, per Twitter’s own guidelines, does not apply to NPR.”
Twitter defines “state-affiliated media” as “outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution.”
“Seems accurate,” Mr Musk wrote in response to the label on NPR’s account. Except it’s not.
According to NPR, less than 1 per cent of its annual operating budget comes from grants awarded through federal agencies and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a publicly funded nonprofit organisation with a board appointed by US presidents, and with a statutory obligation to a “strict adherence to objectivity and balance in all programs or series of programs of a controversial nature.”