The Twitter CEO told an NPR reporter that he was using Wikipedia to determine which media outlets should get the new “Government Funded Media” label.
When Allyn told Musk that the U.S. government doesn’t have any sway over NPR’s editorial decisions, the Twitter CEO dismissed his explanation. U.S. government funding“If you really think that the government has no influence on the entity they’re funding then you’ve been marinating in the Kool-Aid for too long,” Musk said.Gizmodo reached out to NPR for comment on Tuesday morning but did not immediately receive a response.
The “state-affiliated media” label, besides being inaccurate, also appeared to come out of the blue, as NPR’s Twitter account previously did not have any labels. NPR stopped tweeting in protest and said it wouldn’t resume tweeting until the label was removed. The outlet has not tweeted since April 5.
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