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Who cares...Musk has been shutting people and entities up on Twitter since he bought it. "Free speech" and all that. Twitter is just going to become Truth Social at which time it will be a giant echo chamber and meh, so...Just...irrelevant.
I don’t necessarily object to the label, but it’s a bit disingenuous to hint that the State has editorial control. I’m an NPR junkie. Yeah, it’s a bit lefty, but they do at least tend to be more thorough than most other broadcast outlets.
NPR was established by the US Congress, and it receives federal funding, so.... it's a federal funded organization. So NPR quits Twitter because they cannot handle the truth.
Twitter attached a “state-affiliated media” label to National Public Radio’s official account on Tuesday — a designation that is also given to government-controlled outlets such as Russia Today or China’s Xinhua news agency.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk highlighted the move in a Wednesday tweet, sharing language in Twitter’s guidelines that defines “state-affiliated media” as “outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution.”
The irony is that Elon Musk/Twitter labels NPR as "government funded media" while Elon Musk's SpaceX depends on government contracts - $2B in 2021 and $2.8B in 2022. Tesla too has received hundreds of millions in government money. Does Musk think no one knows that? It's fine to label NPR but at least acknowledge they are not the only ones.
Yeah why listen to researched facts and balanced view points when you can read an online version of a Jerry Springer show, far more entertaining.
Wow, what a response. This leftist propaganda should never have been subsidized by taxpayers in the first place.
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