NPR asked listeners to search for news on other social networks; For the CEO, the rating is “unacceptable.”
American radio NPR (NPR) Established On Thursday (6.April 2023) it will no longer use the Twitter while classified as United States media by Elon Musk Social Network. The press car denies tagging.
The last time a broadcast was posted on the platform was on Tuesday (4 April 2023). In his Twitter profile description, he tells people to search for his content on any other channel: “You can find us anywhere else you read the news.”.
NPR President John Lansing refused to classify it as state media. It is unacceptable for Twitter to label us this way.wrote in A note shared on the social network.
On the same day he received the label, Radio did a dossier mail at the following address: “Twitter labels NPR’s account as ‘state media’, which is not true.”.
“NPR staff asked Twitter to remove the tag”says the radio response. NPR operates independently of the United States government.
a NPR It is considered a traditional American company. Insofar as it is independent of the government, it receives state resources to maintain its functioning.
The official media rating came two days after the newspaper was published The New York Times She said she would not pay for the Twitter verification badge.
In response to the newspaper’s decision, Elon Musk said: The New York Times there feed who looks like “Diarrhea”.
Since buying the social network in July 2022, Musk has changed the verification stamp policies. Users must now pay for verification types:
- ashen – Governments and politicians.
- blue – Twitter Blue users;
- golden – companies or business profiles.
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