NPR became the first major news outlet to leave Twitter today, announcing it will stop posting on the social media outlet after Twitter labeled it “state-affiliated media” last week.
NPR announced on Wednesday that it would cease posting to Twitter altogether after the social media company labeled the news outlet “state-affiliated media” last week.
“NPR’s organizational accounts will no longer be active on Twitter because the platform is taking actions that undermine our credibility by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent,” NPR said in a statement. “We are not putting our journalism on platforms that have demonstrated an interest in undermining our credibility and the public’s understanding of our editorial independence.
on Friday because of the label but continued to tweet from other accounts that didn’t have the designation. Twitter then revised its label on NPR’s account to “government-funded media,” which remains on NPR’s main account. On Wednesday, NPR tweeted“Actions by Twitter or other social media companies to tarnish the independence of any public media institution are exceptionally harmful and set a dangerous precedent,” NPR’s chief executive, John Lansing, said in a statement.
When asked about NPR’s new labeling on Twitter, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said last Wednesday that “social media companies make their own independent decisions about content rules.” However, “there’s no doubt of the independence of NPR’s journalists. … NPR journalists work diligently to hold public officials accountable and inform the American people,” she said. “The hard-hitting independence nature of their coverage speaks for itself.”during a recent interview with BBC“I know the BBC is generally not thrilled about being labeled state media,” Musk said in the interview.
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