Bengaluru: Twitter on Friday removed the “government-funded media” tag shown on some accounts such as National Public Radio (NPR) and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), which implies government involvement in editorial content.
Apart from NPR and CBC, the tag labeled ‘state-affiliated media’ was also absent from the Twitter account of the British Broadcasting Corp (BBC).
Earlier this month, NPR and CBC halted their activities on the social media platforms, arguing that the tag did not accurately capture their governance structure.
In an interview with the BBC last week, Twitter’s billionaire owner Elon Musk said the company was trying to be “precise” and was revising the label.
“Our goal is to be as truthful and accurate as possible. We are adjusting the label to ‘publicly funded,’ which I think probably isn’t too objectionable,” Musk had said.
(Reporting by Jahnavi Nidumolu and Abinaya Vijayaraghavan in Bengaluru; Editing by Dhanya N Thoppil and Savio D’Souza)
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