NPR Quits Twitter After Receiving , ‘State-Affiliated Media’ Label.
CNN reports that the news organization, which is publicly funded by listeners, received the label last week, likening it to Russia's RT and Sputnik.
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Over the weekend, NPR's label was updated to include "government funded media.".
NPR CEO John Lansing referred to the labels as "unacceptable." .
On April 12, NPR revealed that it is leaving Twitter.
NPR’s organizational accounts will no longer be active on Twitter because the platform is taking actions that undermine our credibility by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent, NPR, via statement.
We are not putting our journalism on platforms that have demonstrated an interest in undermining our credibility and the public’s understanding of our editorial independence, NPR, via statement.
In its last tweets, NPR alerted followers of alternative places to find its work, such as its own app and other social media platforms. Millions of Americans depend on NPR and their local public radio stations for the fact-based, independent, public service journalism they need to stay informed about the world and about their own communities, NPR CEO John Lansing, via email to NPR staff, via CNN.
It would be a disservice to the serious work you all do here to continue to share it on a platform that is associating the federal charter for public media with an abandoning of editorial independence or standards, NPR CEO John Lansing, via email to NPR staff, via CNN.
CNN reports that Twitter has also labeled the BBC as "government funded media," but after pushback, Elon Musk plans to change it to "publicly funded."
