NPR quits Elon Musk’s Twitter over ‘government-funded’ label

[Sick Of Silence]

https://apnews.com/article/npr-quits-twitter-stateaffiliated-media-label-elon-musk-94afa8e82cdc4bfc784a70725c9a8839

National Public Radio is quitting Twitter after the social media platform owned by Elon Musk stamped NPR's account with labels the news organization says are intended to undermine its credibility.

Twitter labeled NPR's main account last week as "state-affiliated media, " a term also used to identify media outlets controlled or heavily influenced by authoritarian governments, such as Russia and China. Twitter later changed the label to "government-funded media," but to NPR — which relies on the government for a tiny fraction of its funding — it's still misleading.

NPR said in a statement Wednesday that it "will no longer be active on Twitter because the platform is taking actions that undermine our credibility by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent."