NPR is the first major US media outlet to quit Twitter after it was labelled \u201cstate-affiliated media\u201d label – a term used for propaganda channels in Russia and China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The broadcaster has 52 Twitter feeds and will now stop posting new content<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Twitter owner Elon Musk has acknowledged that the tag might have been inaccurate and switched it to \u201cgovernment-funded media.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read More: BBC objects to Twitter\u2019s \u2018government-funded media\u2019 label<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n But NPR said the designation is still \u201cinaccurate and misleading\u201d as it is an editorially autonomous non-profit organization<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NPR said it \u201creceives less than one percent of its $300 million annual budget from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n CEO John Lansing told staff NPR \u201cwill not immediately return to the platform\u201d even if Twitter removes the tag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI would never have our content go anywhere that would risk our credibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAt this point, I have lost my faith in the decision-making at Twitter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Read More: Twitter recovers from debts as advertisers return after Elon Musk takeover<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n On Wednesday, April 12, Musk tweeted what seemed to be a screenshot of an email from an NPR reporter asking for his response to the firm\u2019s decision. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He replied: \u201cDefund NPR.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The British news agency BBC was also briefly tagged<\/a><\/strong> with “government-funded media” on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But BBC said Musk agreed to alter the designation to \u201cpublicly funded,\u201d and since Wednesday, there is no label on any of its Twitter accounts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Need Career Advice?<\/strong> Get employment skills advice at all levels of your career<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The new labels are the most recent policy changes Musk has adopted since his chaotic $44 billion takeover of the social media<\/a><\/strong> platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During a Twitter Spaces interview, Musk said the Twitter purchase was fraught with an “extremely high” pain level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On April 2, Musk, an outspoken media critic, dubbed The New York Times’ coverage “propaganda” and compared its Twitter feed to “diarrhea” in a tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Soon after, he pulled the news company’s verification checkmark, blaming its reluctance to pay for the platform’s modified Twitter Blue subscription service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: <\/strong>CNBC<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow us on YouTube<\/strong><\/a>, Twitter<\/strong><\/a>, LinkedIn<\/strong><\/a>, and Facebook<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NPR became the first major US media outlet to quit Twitter after the \u201cstate-affiliated media\u201d label, used for propaganda channels in Russia and China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":41097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2456,1065],"tags":[329],"class_list":["post-41096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-twitter-news","category-us-business-news","tag-twitter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatjobs.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}