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Government-Funded Mania
Government-Funded Mania
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NPR abandoned Twitter on Wednesday after the tech giant correctly labeled the outlet “US state-affiliated media.” Twitter subsequently changed the tag to “government-funded” following complaints by the outlet’s employees but it was too little, too late – the congressionally-financed media announced it would “no longer be active on Twitter.”
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Later that day, US government-funded PBS followed suit, announcing it “stopped tweeting from [its] account” upon learning it’d been accurately tagged and has “no plans to resume at this time.”Twitter owner Elon Musk reacted to the news by summarizing the episode succinctly: “Publicly funded PBS joins publicly funded NPR in leaving Twitter in a huff after being labeled ‘Publicly Funded.’”
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Government-Funded Mania
01:51 GMT 14.04.2023 (Updated: 16:33 GMT 09.03.2024) NPR abandoned Twitter on Wednesday after the tech giant correctly labeled the outlet “US state-affiliated media.” Twitter subsequently changed the tag to “government-funded” following complaints by the outlet’s employees but it was too little, too late – the congressionally-financed media announced it would “no longer be active on Twitter.”
Later that day, US government-funded PBS followed suit, announcing it “stopped tweeting from [its] account” upon learning it’d been accurately tagged and has “no plans to resume at this time.”
Twitter owner Elon Musk reacted to the news by
summarizing the episode succinctly: “Publicly funded PBS joins publicly funded NPR in leaving Twitter in a huff after being labeled ‘Publicly Funded.’”
