Twitter removes ‘US state-affiliated media’ label from NPR account

Twitter has eliminated a label that designated NPR as a “US state-affiliated” media outlet mere days after first making use of the label earlier this week. As of Saturday, the corporate now lists the general public broadcaster as a “authorities funded” group. NPR tech reporter Bobby Allyn was the primary to report on the change. He stated Elon Musk informed him Twitter would apply the “authorities funded” designation to different establishments within the coming days. “Tesla, which has obtained billions of {dollars} in authorities subsidies through the years, doesn’t seem to have the label,” Allyn added.

The primary NPR account has not tweeted since Twitter first utilized the state-affiliated label on Wednesday. After NPR CEO John Lansing issued a press release declaring that the “state-affiliate” didn’t apply to the general public broadcaster underneath Twitter’s personal tips, the corporate modified these tips. “State-financed media organizations with editorial independence, just like the BBC within the UK or NPR within the US for instance, aren’t outlined as state-affiliated media,” the web page stated earlier than Tuesday. By Wednesday, the corporate had eliminated the part of textual content that had referenced NPR. In keeping with NPR, lower than one p.c of its annual working finances comes from authorities grants. During the last 5 years, nearly all of the non-profit’s income, about 70 p.c, has come from company sponsorships and programming charges.