Didn’t this happen like 5 months ago?
They’ll never stop leaving.
They’ll never quit quitting!
Updated April 12, 2023
Yep
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Again? Amazing. Musk can make people leave who already left.
This is an old article.
This happened in April…
They have a great bot on Mastodon.
Don’t they literally receive funding from the US government?
They do, but it’s a very small part of their total financing (less than 1% I think), and they don’t have government appointed staff or anything like that.
Twitter didn’t say they had government appointed staff. They said they were “state affiliated”. Which you just confirmed as 100% true.
Then nearly every industry is state affiliated.
Affiliated means close formal or informal association. I think 1% of funding and no government appointed people really doesn’t rise to that standard.
Which implies the presence of government influence like in some authoritarian states. I doubt the US government is dictating their editorial lines.
Based on Twitter definitions of state affiliated, govt funded, and public funded, NPR aligns the least with state affiliated and most with publicly funded, right?
How state-affiliated media accounts are defined
State-affiliated media is defined 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. Accounts belonging to state-affiliated media entities, their editors-in-chief, and/or their prominent staff may be labeled. We will also add labels to Tweets that share links to state-affiliated media websites.
How government-funded media accounts are defined
Government-funded media is defined as outlets where the government provides some or all of the outlet’s funding and may have varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content. We may use external sources similar to this one in order to determine when this label is applied.
How publicly-funded media accounts are defined
Publicly-funded media refers to media organizations that receive funding from license fees, individual contributions, public financing, and commercial financing.
Don’t expect right-wing people to actually consider anything other than alternative facts.
state affiliated media implies the government has some sort of editorial control over the media
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In an email to staff explaining the decision, Lansing wrote, “It would be a disservice to the serious work you all do here to continue to share it on a platform that is associating the federal charter for public media with an abandoning of editorial independence or standards.”
For years, many journalists considered Twitter critical to monitoring news developments, to connect with people at major events and with authoritative sources, and to share their coverage.
PBS, which also receives money from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the BBC, which is funded by a uniform license fee charged to British television viewers, are among those whose Twitter accounts were given the same designation.
For example, NPR joined with other media organizations to press the Obama administration for access to closed hearings involving detainees held by U.S. authorities at Guantanamo Bay.
In his exchanges with NPR reporter Allyn, Musk said he was relying on a Wikipedia page dedicated to “publicly funded broadcasters” to determine which accounts should receive the label.
When pressed for how he justifies the disclaimer considering NPR receives meager funding from the government and has complete editorial independence, Musk veered into conspiratorial territory.
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