Twitter Adds Warning to NPR Twitter Account

[applegrove]

Twitter Adds Warning to NPR Twitter Account

April 5, 2023 at 10:39 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 123 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2023/04/05/twitter-adds-warning-to-npr-twitter-account/

"SNIP......

Twitter added a warning to NPR’s Twitter account on Tuesday, declaring it as “state-affiliated media,” a label that’s typically been reserved for foreign media outlets that represent the official views of the government, like Russia’s RT and China’s Xinhua, Forbes reports.

........SNIP"

[applegrove]

1. As Musk slowly gaslights his customers into supporting a right wing

website.

[underpants]

2. Jesus. NPR is excellent reporting and content

Sometimes boring sure but very intelligent.

[applegrove]

3. Which is why Musk is targeting it.

[moonscape]

4. Unreal. He's so much

worse than I had a clue about before Twitter.

[Phoenix61]

9. Same. I thought he was a self-entitled jerk.

I didn’t know he was a wanna be dictator.

[RockRaven]

5. Adds a *FALSE* warning to NPR's account.

NPR is a membership organization comprised of non-profit/educational stations, and those members elect the Board of Directors. Federal funding for NPR was (apparently permanently) slashed in the '80s and currently is about 10% of their budget -- they were forced to evolve their revenue sources to survive and obviously did so many years ago.

[tanyev]

6. Every legit media organization should dump Twitter.

Should have dumped them after it became clear where Elon was taking it.

[ret5hd]

7. Nothing to see here. Keep supporting twitter.

Accept no substitutes.

Brawndo… I mean Twitter…has what plants crave.

[dembotoz]

8. i am so happy i do not waste time on twitter

but then again i do battle with the meatheads on facebook

fight the good fight folks

[Trenzalore]

10. When the blue checkmark thing eventually goes into effect the site is over

Enough celebrities, media figures, and social influencers will give him the finger and it will no longer have its greatest asset.

Then it will be talked about in the same breath as MySpace in 5 years.

[applegrove]

11. MySpace was bought by Rupert Murdoch and then it tanked. I see some similarities.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. Musk is a motherfucking troll. Of course, he's fucked this trolling up too, because he's lazy

and has sacked too many people to troll correctly with a platform. The Forbes source for the OP says the Twitter online help used to list NPR and the BBC as "state-financed", not "state-affiliated" (because of editorial independence), but that has been altered. That's true here:

State-financed media organizations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK for example, are not defined as state-affiliated media for the purposes of this policy.

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/state-affiliated

but the fucker running the platform into the ground has forgotten to change it elsewhere, eg here:

State-financed media organizations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK or NPR in the US for example, are not defined as state-affiliated media for the purposes of this policy.

https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/state-affiliated-china