Elon Musk Threatens to Reassign Dormant NPR Twitter Handle to Another User

Twitter chief Elon Musk has “threatened” to reassign Nationwide Public Radio’s Twitter account to a different firm, the US-based broadcaster stated on Tuesday.

Musk recommended that he would reassign the community’s fundamental account, below the @NPR deal with, to a different group or particular person, NPR stated.

NPR stopped posting content material to its 52 official Twitter feeds final month in protest towards a Twitter designation that implied authorities involvement in its editorial content material.

Musk, in an electronic mail to an NPR reporter, requested about its engagement with Twitter, the general public broadcaster stated.

“So is NPR going to begin posting on Twitter once more, or ought to we reassign @NPR to a different firm?” NPR quoted Musk as saying.

“Our coverage is to recycle handles which are definitively dormant,” he stated in one other electronic mail. “Identical coverage applies to all accounts. No particular therapy for NPR.”

NPR and Twitter didn’t instantly reply to a request from Reuters for remark.

In line with Twitter’s coverage, customers ought to log in to their accounts a minimum of as soon as each 30 days to keep away from everlasting removing because of extended inactivity.

PBS and the Canadian Broadcasting Company adopted NPR and stopped posting on Twitter following related labelling.

Twitter later dropped the labels however the retailers that have been focused haven’t resumed exercise, their profiles confirmed on Tuesday.

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