khaskhabar.com : Saturday, April 22, 2023 11:17 AM
New Delhi. Elon Musk-run Twitter has finally removed the government-funded media label on all accounts belonging to traditional publications and digital news outlets. Twitter has also removed its web page explaining the government-funded media label, reports The Verge.
The micro-blogging platform previously placed a ‘publicly funded’ label on the BBC account and applied the ‘government funded’ label to the US-based NPR.
Twitter later blocked the accounts of global news outlets such as the Australian Broadcasting Company (ABC Australia), Australia’s Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), New Zealand’s public broadcaster RNZ, Sweden’s SR Ekot and SVT, and Catalonia’s TV3 as ‘government-financed’ accounts. Labeled nurtured media. ,
ABC News said in a tweet that it is a publicly funded broadcaster, governed by the ABC Charter which is enshrined in law.
It argued that, for more than 90 years, the ABC has always been an independent media organization and free from political and commercial interests.
SBS said the label could lead Twitter users to believe that the outlet is editorially controlled by the government.
CBC/Radio-Canada tweeted that our journalism is fair and independent.
NPR decided to leave Twitter after the Musk-run platform labeled it a government-funded organization.
After NPR, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) also quit Twitter after being labeled a pro-government media.(IANS)
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