National Public Radio is quitting Twitter after the social media platform owned by Elon Musk stamped NPR’s main account with labels the news organization says are meant to undermine its credibility.
A Twitter logo hangs outside the company's offices in San Francisco, on Dec. 19, 2022.
PBS said Wednesday it has also stopped tweeting from its main account because of its new label and has no plans to resume.Media analysts say growing friction between Twitter and news organizations since Musk bought the platform is bad for Twitter, and bad for the public. Twitter earlier in April removed the verification check mark on the main account of The New York Times, singling out the newspaper and disparaging its reporting after it said it would not pay Twitter for verification of its institutional accounts.
“The drift is in an unfortunate direction,” Barrett said. “You want to encourage sources of reliable, well-reported news to be present and prolific on your platform.” Twitter’s new labels have often appeared arbitrarily assigned. It tagged NPR with the “state-affiliated” label after Musk participated in a public conversation about NPR on Twitter. It then deleted mention of NPR, but temporarily left up BBC, on a web page where it described how news organizations “with editorial independence” should not get that label.
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