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Twitter labels NPR as "state-affiliated media"
CBS News ^ | April 5, 2023 | Kerry Breen

Posted on 04/06/2023 3:59:42 AM PDT by McGruff

National Public Radio has been labeled as "U.S. state-affiliated media" on Twitter, marking the public radio outlet's account with the same icon placed on outlets like Russia's state-owned news agency TASS or China's New China News Agency, the official state news agency of the People's Republic of China

The label has only been applied to NPR's primary Twitter account and is not currently on accounts like NPR Politics or NPR Health.

Twitter, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, has long labeled state-owned media companies. According to the site, the labels "provide additional context about accounts that are controlled by certain official representatives of governments, state-affiliated media entities and individuals associated with those entities."

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: elonmusk; npr; twitter; twitternotes
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1 posted on 04/06/2023 3:59:42 AM PDT by McGruff
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2 posted on 04/06/2023 4:01:00 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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To: McGruff

Why wouldn’t they? Don’t they still get federal money?

Even a little is too much.


3 posted on 04/06/2023 4:08:00 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." J)
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To: rlmorel
When CBS News reached out to Twitter's press contact to clarify why NPR had received this label, Twitter responded with an automated poop emoji.


4 posted on 04/06/2023 4:17:01 AM PDT by DoodleBob ( Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: McGruff

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.


5 posted on 04/06/2023 4:22:41 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: rlmorel

NPR receives 25% of its funding from the G.

That makes Elon correct……

…..again.

RLTW


6 posted on 04/06/2023 4:29:47 AM PDT by military cop (I carry a .45....cause they don't make a .46....)
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To: McGruff

A media company doesn’t have to be ‘state owned’ to be labeled as such, and should be labeled state-controlled, which NPR is, and CNN/MSNBC/CBS/NBC/ABC are all in the same category.


7 posted on 04/06/2023 4:32:11 AM PDT by adorno
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To: McGruff

VOA is right up there also.


8 posted on 04/06/2023 4:34:18 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: rlmorel

My local NPR broadcasts from our **state** university. It is supported by the **state** university and is part of their audio/visual student arts program.

NPR gets plenty of tax money from our state.


9 posted on 04/06/2023 4:45:51 AM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: military cop

“NPR receives 25% of its funding from the G.”

I understand that he had more important things going on but, IIRC, during his first campaign DJT said he’d remove funding for NPR — and PBS, maybe.

This is something our new Congress probably could do in a week’s time. DEFUND NPR.


10 posted on 04/06/2023 4:48:35 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: wintertime

Correct....... I have wondered for years why Republican governors do not rein in their public radio propaganda


11 posted on 04/06/2023 4:49:23 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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To: bert
Republican governors, even competent ones like De Santis, have done little or nothing to curb leftist power and intolerance at state universities. NPR is only the tip of the iceberg relative to leftist in state universities.

Lower tuitions than private universities and an emphasis on big time college sports are major reasons why public universities have a strong constituency. Why, in an era of hostility to masculinity, do universities promote macho sports like football and basketball? Because they are often profitable, and even if not, promote public support for the universities.

12 posted on 04/06/2023 5:00:59 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: rlmorel

NPR has been funded by Fed money since its inception and is run by the homo lobby.


13 posted on 04/06/2023 5:22:12 AM PDT by chopperk ( )
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To: chopperk; wintertime

I worded it the way I did because I had heard their government funding had been reduced. As far as I was concerned, even one penny was too much for me.

But when you think of it, it is like everything else-they probably openly misled people about reductions in funding. I’ll be their funding increases haven’t gone up as much as they want, not that their funding has been reduced.

It has been a source of anger to me for decades that these people got taxpayer money.


14 posted on 04/06/2023 5:50:34 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." J)
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To: McGruff

People unlike me help to fund these government channels.


15 posted on 04/06/2023 5:54:11 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: McGruff

Many fake news outlets are partnered with government. This is definitive fascism.


16 posted on 04/06/2023 6:31:05 AM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: McGruff

Add CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, et al to the list.


17 posted on 04/06/2023 6:52:15 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Das dicke Ende kommt noc!)
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To: adorno
You left out Fox/Murdoch and now Dominion News.

Some people are easily fooled I guess.

18 posted on 04/06/2023 7:36:14 AM PDT by lewislynn ( Trump accomplished more for America in one 4yr term than any President in your lifetime)
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You left out Fox/Murdoch and now Dominion News.

Not quite the same. FOX still has a very different cast and a set of contributors who don't follow the democrat/communist party line.
19 posted on 04/06/2023 7:54:57 AM PDT by adorno
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To: McGruff

If someone at NPR is triggered by this, they should just stop taking the FED $.


20 posted on 04/06/2023 3:31:33 PM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist. I'm white. How does that make me racist?)
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