Twitter Removes ‘Government-Funded Media’ Labels From News Outlets Amid Controversy—Including NPR, CBC, PBS

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The change had led major broadcasters including NPR and CBC to quit the platform.

Twitter drew controversy earlier this month for labeling the Western media publications, which are all editorially independent—andto the “government-funded” tag after initially describing them as “state-funded media”—which led NPR, PBS and CBC to all stop posting on the platform entirely.

Twitter, NPR, PBS, the BBC and CBC have not yet responded to requests for comments on the change and whether outlets that have left the platform would return to Twitter in response.when the broadcaster quit the platform that it would likely not “immediately return” if their label was dropped. “At this point I have lost my faith in the decision-making at Twitter,” Lansing said. “I would need some time to understand whether Twitter can be trusted again.

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