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Twitter changes its policy and labels NPR as "State-Affiliated Media"

The broadcaster called the action "inacceptable" and condemned it. NPR was mentioned as an exception to Twitter's labeling policy up until Tuesday night. Tuesday night, National Public Radio's account on the social network received the title "U.S. state-affiliated media" from Twitter.

The decision was made at the same time as Twitter, which Elon Musk acquired for $44 billion in October, announced signi revisions to several of its policies that had been inconsistently implemented, such as the verification check mark system.

State-affiliated accounts are those that are "outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution," according to Twitter's policies. further press accounts from the include RT of Russia and Xinhua of China in the label.

NPR and the BBC of Great Britain were not given the moniker because they were "state-financed media organizations with editorial independence," according to cached versions of Twitter's stated policy that were available for much of Tuesday. Since then, the policy has been updated to remove the mention of NPR.

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NPR's CEO, John Lansing, issued a statement saying, "We were disturbed to see last night that Twitter has labeled NPR as'state-affiliated media'." "NPR supports the right to free expression and the need to keep the powerful accountable. We cannot accept Twitter's characterization of us, he continued.

NPR's principal spokesperson, Isabel Lara, stated that the broadcaster had not been informed cation only after it surfaced on Twitter. She noted that Twitter but there had been no response. She pointed out that funds from the

Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other organizations typically make up less than 1%

A request for response from Mr. Musk was ignored, and Twitter's PR team responded to an email with an automatic poop emoji. In response to a user who pointed out the designation on NPR's account, Mr. Musk responded in apparent support of the action, quoting a line from Twitter's policy and stating that it "seems accurate."