Updated: April 10, 2023, 07:43 PM IST
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After an uproar over labeling the US Radio Network… MoreFollowing an uproar over labeling US radio network NPR as ‘state-affiliated’ media and ‘government funded’, Elon Musk’s Twitter has hit back and applied the same label to the British Broadcasting Corporation or BBC. The BBC immediately lodged a protest against the labeling via Twitter. Labeling which suggests that the state exerts influence over a network’s editorial policies was challenged by the BBC in a statement saying, ‘The BBC is independent, and always has been. We are funded by the British public through the license fee’, said the BBC.