A few days ago, NPR was Twitter’s example of an editorially independent media outlet. But in Elon Musk’s newest anti-press move, NPR’s Twitter got a label likening the outlet to Russian and Chinese state-owned news agencies.
Lumping NPR into this group represents a reversal for the platform: Twitter changed its Help Center document about state-affiliated accounts on Tuesday. Before 7:30 a.m. Pacific time, the policy read, “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.”
Twitter’s algorithm does not recommend or amplify state-affiliated media accounts or their tweets to users, the Help Center document says, which will likely diminish NPR’s reach on the platform. The document says Twitter will label links to state-affiliated media websites and won’t amplify tweets containing them, but that label has not been added to NPR links as of this article’s publication.Wednesday protesting the “inaccurate” label, which he said he was disturbed to see Tuesday night.
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