NPR to stop using Twitter after getting ‘state-affiliated media’ label
Hindustan TimesNational Public Radio will no longer post content to its 52 official Twitter feeds in protest against a label by the social media platform that implies government involvement in the U.S. organization's editorial content. NPR said on Wednesday Twitter refused its repeated requests to remove the inaccurate label of "state-affiliated media", now changed to "government-funded media," which did not accurately capture its public media governance structure. In an interview with BBC, Twitter's billionaire owner Elon Musk said earlier on Wednesday the company was trying to be "accurate" and looking into amending the label. Musk also said in the interview that Twitter was "roughly breaking even" as many advertisers, who had paused spending on the micro blogging platform since its takeover last year, had returned.