Twitter users noticed NPR received a state-affiliated media label today.
says, “Labels on government accounts provide additional context for accounts heavily engaged in geopolitics and diplomacy.” The company uses the BBC news outlet based in the UK as an example of non-state-affiliated media, saying it doesn’t fall under the policy.By adding the state-affiliated media label, Twitter will cease to amplify those accounts or push their tweets through the site’s algorithm.
Twitter assigned the state-affiliated media label to RT and Xinhua years ago, but Musk continues to voice his support for the outlets despite their radical and falsified information. Texts from Musk to his associates about RT surfaced last year when
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