PBS has joined NPR in closing down shop on Twitter after the Elon Musk-owned social media platform dubbed it “Government-funded Media,” slapping the tag to all its Tweets
Twitter had originally tagged NRP as “State-Affiliated Media,” which includes propaganda accounts from Russia and China. It changed the wording to “Government-Funded,” but NPR called the description Musk acquired Twitter last year for $44 billion. Changes he’s made include removing the verification system for media, celebrities and other prominent users.
“PBS’s editorial independence is central to our work and will never change. We produce trustworthy content that features unbiased reporting,” says the org’s now dormant Twitter account, which has 2.2 million followers. According to Twitter’s Help Center, “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.”
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