{"id":1912659,"date":"2023-04-10T19:40:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T23:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-walks-back-npr-state-affiliated-label-changes-it-to-government-funded-following-backlash\/"},"modified":"2023-04-10T19:43:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T23:43:01","slug":"twitter-walks-back-npr-state-affiliated-label-changes-it-to-government-funded-following-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-walks-back-npr-state-affiliated-label-changes-it-to-government-funded-following-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Following reaction, Twitter Walks Before NPR &#8216; State-Affiliated Label and Changes It to&#8221; Public Funded.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftwitter-walks-back-npr-state-affiliated-label-changes-it-to-government-funded-following-backlash%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1912659&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0410\/40c1ca7f-8267-49e5-ac14-230a6bdc6360\/audio.mp3?length=3587661&#038;duration=299\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">In response to public pressure, Twitter retracted its decision to label National Public Radio&#8217;s&#8217;s( NPR ) account as&#8221; state-affiliated media.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The term&#8221; government-funded media&#8221; was added to the social media platform in place of&#8221; NPR&#8217;s&#8217;s account&#8221; label.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">On April 4, NPR received the same moniker as foreign say media outlets like the state-controlled TASS, RT, and Xinhua, the official position information organization of the Chinese Communist Party.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk, the CEO of Twitter, appeared to support the basic new moniker for NPR by tweeting last week that it&#8221; Seems precise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Officials from NPR denounce New Twitter Description<\/h2>\n<p>John Lansing, president and CEO of NPR, denounced the basic classification in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; We were disturbed to see last night that Twitter has labeled NPR as&#8221; state &#8211; affiliated media ,&#8221; a description that, in accordance with Twitter&#8217;s&#8217;s own rules, does not apply toNPR ,&#8221; Lansing retorted on April 5.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of viewers who depend on us for the active, fact-based news we offer support NPR and our member facilities. It is unethical for Twitter to categorize us in this manner. The health of our republic depends on a strong, beautiful independent newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Since system administrators added the&#8221; say &#8211; affiliated marketing&#8221; brand, the publicly funded journalist has not posted comments from its official Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>The NPR access explanation was quickly updated by the Twitter account managers, who then received the new brand, which read:&#8221; NPR is an independent news organization committed to informing the public about the society around us.&#8221; Everywhere you read the news, you can find us.<\/p>\n<p>Customers are directed to a page about government and state-affiliated press accounts when they click on the new&#8221; government-funded marketing&#8221; description.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter refers to&#8221; state-affiliated media&#8221; accounts as&#8221; outlets where the state exerts control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and \/ or production and distribution control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The platform&#8217;s&#8217;s&#8221; government-funded marketing&#8221; brand has not yet been defined.<\/p>\n<p>For the purposes of this policy,&#8221; state-financed media organizations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK, are not defined as state-affiliated media ,&#8221; according to Twitter&#8217;s&#8217;s Help Center.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that all UK households are required by law to pay a license fee to support the public network, the state-backed British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC) has also expressed displeasure with Twitter&#8217;s&#8217;s&#8221; government-funded media&#8221; label.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; We&#8217;re&#8217;re talking to T.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter walked back labeling National Public Radio\u2019s (NPR) account as \u201cstate-affiliated media\u201d after facing public pressure. The social media platform replaced the label for NPR\u2019s account and with the term, \u201cgovernment-funded media.\u201d NPR was given on April 4 the same label as foreign state media outlets like Russian state-controlled TASS, RT, and Xinhua, the Chinese<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":327,"featured_media":1912660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[23646,10954,9826,10994,16561,3799,7048,3618,4253,6054],"class_list":["post-1912659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-state-affiliated","tag-to","tag-funded","tag-label","tag-npr","tag-public","tag-reaction","tag-riot","tag-twitter","tag-walks"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1912659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1912660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}