{"id":1914561,"date":"2023-04-14T00:57:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T04:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/second-taxpayer-funded-news-outlet-quits-twitter-after-being-labeled-state-media\/"},"modified":"2023-04-14T01:01:56","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T05:01:56","slug":"second-taxpayer-funded-news-outlet-quits-twitter-after-being-labeled-state-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/second-taxpayer-funded-news-outlet-quits-twitter-after-being-labeled-state-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Taxpayer-Funded News Outlet Quits Twitter After Being Labeled State Media"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fsecond-taxpayer-funded-news-outlet-quits-twitter-after-being-labeled-state-media%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=1914561&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>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>PBS News announced its exit from Twitter after being labeled as &#8220;government-funded media&#8221; by the social network. This announcement comes after NPR made a similar exit for the same reason.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>PBS spokesman, Jason Phelps, told Bloomberg, &#8220;PBS stopped tweeting from our account when we learned of the change and we have no plans to resume at this time.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Twitter CEO, Elon Musk, pointed out the outlet\u2019s funding from federal agencies as a justification for the description, which was originally &#8220;state-affiliated media.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>PBS stated that the &#8220;simplistic label&#8221; creates an &#8220;inaccurate impression that PBS is wholly funded by the federal government.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;PBS is primarily funded by the public and philanthropic organizations, with only a small portion of our funding coming from entities affiliated with government,&#8221; the company said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>NPR declared that it would no longer update its 52 Twitter accounts in protest, calling this an &#8220;inaccurate label.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Guess they won\u2019t mind losing federal funding in that case,&#8221; tweeted Elon Musk.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;We are officially deemphasizing Twitter across the organization,&#8221; NPR said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This is the latest development in Musk\u2019s ongoing dispute with mainstream media. Musk recently cornered a BBC reporter in an interview who claimed hate content on Twitter &#8220;is on the rise.&#8221; The reporter failed to provide an example of such content and Musk accused him of lying.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PBS News on Wednesday announced it left Twitter after the social network labeled it &#8220;government-funded media,&#8221; the same day NPR announced its exit over the same reason. &#8220;PBS stopped tweeting from our account when we learned of the change and we have no plans to resume at this time,&#8221; PBS spokesman Jason Phelps told Bloomberg.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1914562,"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":[544],"tags":[20194,4188,4133,5209,4026,5953,4253],"class_list":["post-1914561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-labeled","tag-media","tag-news","tag-outlet","tag-quits","tag-taxpayer-funded","tag-twitter"],"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\/1914561","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\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1914562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}