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Government-Funded Mania

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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