NPR says it will no longer post fresh content to its 52 official Twitter feeds after the news organization was labeled “government-funded media” on the Elon Musk-owned social media plat…
feeds after the news organization was labeled “government-funded media” on the Elon Musk-owned social media platform.from its main Twitter account.
NPR says the “government-funded media” label – the description was amended by Twitter after relenting on an initial “state-affiliated media” tag – is “inaccurate and misleading,” and notes that NPR is “a private, nonprofit company with editorial independence” that ” “receives less than 1 percent of its $300 million annual budget from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.”
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