NPR To Leave TwitterAfter Being Labeled 'State-Affiliated Media'
NPR announced Wednesday it will no longer post content on Twitter, after the social media company led by Elon Musk last week applied a label on NPR’s account reading “State-affiliated media” — a designation that was previously reserved for outlets controlled by governments in authoritarian countries.
“The platform is taking actions that undermine our credibility by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent,” NPR said in a 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.”
Over the weekend, the social media platform updated the label on NPR’s main Twitter account to “Government-funded media,” a term that again doesn’t accurately reflect the nonprofit media organization’s funding.
Twitter defines “government-funded media” as “outlets where the government provides some or all of the outlet’s funding and may have varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content.”
NPR receives slightly less than 1% of its annual operating budget from the U.S. government, and is editorially independent.
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