According to a Bloomberg report, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) has joined National Public Radio (NPR) in leaving Twitter after being labeled “Government-Funded Media.”
“PBS stopped tweeting from our account when we learned of the change and we have no plans to resume at this time,” PBS spokesman Jason Phelps said. “We are continuing to monitor the ever-changing situation closely.”
From Bloomberg:
The spat began after Twitter tagged NPR as “state-affiliated media,” a description it also uses for propaganda accounts from Russia and China. Twitter later changed the wording to “government-funded media,” but the organization has called the description inaccurate and misleading because it’s a nonprofit group with editorial independence.
Twitter owner Elon Musk has cited NPR’s reliance on US government money, though the Washington-based organization only gets a small fraction of its funding from federal agencies.
Musk shared the news on Twitter:
Publicly funded PBS joins publicly funded NPR in leaving Twitter in a huff after being labeled “Publicly Funded” 🤣
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 13, 2023
More over at Fox News:
PBS joins NPR in ditching Twitter over Elon Musk’s ‘government-funded media’ label https://t.co/WUQe3M0blE
— Fox News (@FoxNews) April 13, 2023