{"id":1918118,"date":"2023-04-22T12:13:28","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T16:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-removes-government-funded-media-label-from-npr-cbc-bbc-and-russias-rt-accounts\/"},"modified":"2023-04-22T12:14:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T16:14:48","slug":"twitter-removes-government-funded-media-label-from-npr-cbc-bbc-and-russias-rt-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/twitter-removes-government-funded-media-label-from-npr-cbc-bbc-and-russias-rt-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter deactivates the&#8221; government-funded marketing&#8221; label from the RT accounts of NPR, CBC, BBC, and Russia."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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-removes-government-funded-media-label-from-npr-cbc-bbc-and-russias-rt-accounts%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=1918118&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--><p> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">h<\/span>as lifted its &#8220;government-funded media&#8221; and &#8220;state-affiliated&#8221; labels from <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/npr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NPR<\/a>, CBC, <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bbc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a>, China\u2019s Xinhu, and Russia&#8217;s RT accounts. <\/p>\n<p>On April 12, NPR became the first significant news outlet to object to the&#8221; state-affiliated media&#8221; label on its Twitter account. It released a statement and ceased posting on its balance.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/elon-musk-is-right-transparency-in-journalism-is-essential\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ELON MUSK IS Correct: JOURNALISM TRANSPARENCY IS REQUIRED.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Because Twitter is acting in a way that undermines our legitimacy by erroneously implying that we are not journalistically independent, NPR&#8217;s&#8217;s corporate accounts will no longer be active on the platform, according to the organization.<\/p>\n<p>Following the social media platform&#8217;s&#8217;s labeling of&#8221; government-funded media ,&#8221; CBC \/ Radio &#8211; Canada decided to stop using Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; Our media is free-wheeling and objective.&#8221; To imply then is misleading. We are pausing our Twitter activity because of this, the article stated on April 17.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter changed its label to&#8221; 69 % Government-funded media&#8221; when CBC questioned Twitter&#8217;s&#8217;s definition of&#8221; government &#8211; funded&#8221; by pointing out that it received other revenue.<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON Inspector BY CLICKING HERE<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>One social internet users observed that the government-funded names were also removed when Musk removed colored checkmarks from reputation accounts.<\/p>\n<p>One Twitter user said,&#8221; Looks like when removing legacy verified blue checkmarks, Twitter unintentionally removed * all * state-affiliated, government-funded, and public &#8211; funded media tags on every account.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has lifted its &#8220;government-funded media&#8221; and &#8220;state-affiliated&#8221; labels from NPR, CBC, BBC, China\u2019s Xinhu, and Russia&#8217;s RT accounts. NPR became the first major news organization to protest the &#8220;state-affiliated media&#8221; label on its Twitter account on April 12. It stopped posting on its account and released a statement. 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