I love it!! LOL Twitter on Tuesday evening added a label to National Public Radio’s account on the social network, designating the broadcaster “U.S. state-affiliated media.” The move comes as Twitter has announced sweeping — and unevenly enforced — changes to some of its policies, like the verification check mark system, under the ownership of Elon Musk, who bought Twitter in October for $44 billion. Twitter’s guidelines define state-affiliated accounts 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.” Other news media accounts with the label include RT of Russia and Xinhua of China. According to cached versions of Twitter’s published policy, for much of Tuesday the guidelines noted that NPR and the BBC of Britain did not receive the label because they were “state-financed media organizations with editorial independence.” The reference to NPR has since been deleted from that policy. “We were disturbed to see last night that Twitter has labeled NPR as ‘state-affiliated media,’” John Lansing, the chief executive of NPR, said in a statement. “NPR stands for freedom of speech and holding the powerful accountable. It is unacceptable for Twitter to label us this way,” he added. Isabel Lara, NPR’s chief communications officer, said the broadcaster was not notified that the label would be added to its account and learned of the change only when it appeared on Twitter. She added that NPR contacted Twitter and has not heard back. She noted that, on average, less than 1 percent of NPR’s annual operating budget comes in the form of grants from the government-funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal agencies and departments. Mr. Musk did not respond to a request for comment, and an email to Twitter’s communications department was returned with a poop emoji autoreply. Mr. Musk tweeted in apparent support of the move, posting a passage from Twitter’s policy and saying it “seems accurate” in a reply to a user pointing out the label on NPR’s account. As of Wednesday afternoon, NPR’s sub-accounts on Twitter, including those covering politics, music and health, were not given the “U.S. state-affiliated media” label. Mr. Musk announced last year that he would remove check marks, which had denoted the accounts of celebrities, politicians and other notable figures, from many users’ profiles unless they paid an $8 monthly fee for the verification program known as Twitter Blue. Though the changes were set to go in effect on Saturday, most verified users have kept their blue checks. Twitter took away the check mark from some accounts, including the main account of The New York Times. After Twitter users pointed out that The Times, which was among media companies including The Washington Post and Politico that had said they would not pay for check marks, Mr. Musk tweeted that he would remove it.
Just give it a few weeks for this NPR situation to become “normalized.” Then do a study which shows other mainstream media does, say, 80 percent favorable stories for Washington DC. Then add this label to ABC, CBS and NBC. Thank you Elon for buying the largest dynamic media property in the world.
Today, Elon added more liberal propaganda sources to this category! He took my advice. Now it will get easier to weed out liberal propaganda, like PBS.
This is your reminder that Musk not only ceased to regulate Russian and Chinese state media accounts... but does not apply labels to them. Of course, Musk promotes Russian and Chinese state media accounts in your feed as well. Twitter Ceases to Regulate Russian and Chinese State Media Accounts https://www.mediaite.com/politics/t...-returns-request-for-comment-with-poop-emoji/ New reporting confirms that under owner Elon Musk, Twitter has stopped enforcing key components of its state media policy, allowing Chinese and Russian accounts to operate unencumbered by restrictions articulated in official company policy. While the company had previously blocked state media accounts from appearing in search results and affixing warning labels to links to those outlets’ sites, Semafor has found that those policies are no longer in effect. Semafor’s findings are supplemented by those of Wenhao Ma, a Voice of America reporter who discovered that the social media platform’s new “For You” page would promote state media accounts to users who don’t follow them already. Official Twitter policy promises that “in the case of state-affiliated media entities, Twitter will not recommend or amplify accounts or their Tweets with these labels to people.” Both Semafor and Ma’s inquiries about the quiet de facto policy reversal were auto-replied to with poop emojis. Musk had previously been urged to considered such a reversal by Chinese state media members. In April 2022, prior to Musk’s taking the reins at Twitter twitter troll and European Union bureau chief for the Beijing-run China Daily Chen Weihua had submitted that “Elon Musk should remove my label.” “When people want to like or RT my tweets, they are now reminded by Twitter that ‘this is state affiliated media’. This is totally discriminatory and suppression of free speech,” complained Weihua. The Chinese Communist Party does not allow Twitter to operate within China and has punished Chinese citizens who attempt to flout the internal ban on the platform, even as it uses it to advance its foreign policy objectives. Musk, who has significant ties to the Chinese through his other business ventures, is reportedly seeking a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. The new reporting around the relaxed restrictions on Chines and Russian-run accounts comes amidst controversy over Twitter’s labeling National Public Radio “US state-affiliated media.” Twitter guidelines had previously stated that “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.”