Billionaire Elon Musk tweeted 'defund NPR' on Wednesday after the news organization announced it would no longer be using Twitter over 'credibility' concerns.
PBS has also stopped tweeting after it was given a"government-funded media" label.
"We did stop tweeting at that point as soon as we discovered it," a PBS spokesperson said in a statement."We have no plans to resume tweeting."during a press conference earlier in April and said there was"no doubt" of NPR journalists' independence. Jean-Pierre was asked,"Twitter labeled National Public Radio as a government influenced entity, putting NPR are in the same category as Russia Today or Chinese media. Do you have a comment?" "Yeah, so social media companies make their own independent decisions about content rules, so I won't comment on Twitter's rules, but what I will say, more broadly, I'll say there's no doubt of the independence of NPR's journalists," she said.
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