Twitter had earlier labeled the BBC account “publicly funded” and “government funded” to NPR in the US.
UPDATE – Sat 4/22/23 10:30am
New Delhi: After a backlash, Twitter, run by Elon Musk, has finally removed the “government-sponsored media” label from all accounts belonging to traditional publications and digital news outlets.
Twitter also removed a page explaining the “government-funded media” label, The Verge reported.
The Weibo platform earlier labeled the BBC account as “public funded” and the US NPR as “government-funded”.
Twitter later posted updates on the accounts of global news outlets including ABC Australia, Australia’s Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), New Zealand’s public broadcaster RNZ, Sweden’s SR Ekot and SVT, and Catalonia’s TV3. Many “government-funded media” labels. cat.
In a tweet, ABC News said it was a publicly funded broadcaster “governed by the ABC Charter as provided by law.”
“For more than 90 years, the ABC has been and remains an independent media organization, independent of political and commercial interests,” it argued.
SBS said the label could lead Twitter users to think the outlet was controlled by a government editor.
“Our journalism is impartial and independent,” CBC/Canadian Radio said on Twitter.
NPR decided to quit Twitter after a platform run by Musk flagged it as a government-funded organization.
After NPR, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) also left Twitter after being labeled a government-backed outlet.
