Artice from The Guardian by Guardian Staff, 4/14/23
Headline: “PBS quits Twitter after being labeled ‘government-funded media’”
Sub-head: “Broadcaster leaves platform a day after NPR’s exit over concerns labels undermine credibility as independent news outlets”
“The US’s Public Broadcasting Service, better known as PBS, has quit its use of Twitter after the platform labeled the organization as “government-funded media”.
“PBS’s announced its Twitter exit on Thursday, one day after National Public Radio also left the platform amid comments by the Twitter owner, Elon Musk, that NPR was “state-affiliated media” which should be defunded.
“The labels are shared by Russia Today and China’s Xinhua, whose editorial decisions are heavily influenced by their respective state regimes .. .”