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Context "The BBC is objecting to a new label describing it as 'government funded media' on its main Twitter account. The corporation has contacted the social media giant over the designation on the @BBC account to resolve the issue 'as soon as possible'. 'The BBC is, and always has been, independent. We are funded by the British public through the licence fee,' it said." https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-65226481

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Supplementary #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesLoraKelley and #NewspaperUSBrdshtNewYorkTimesKatieRobertson "National Public Radio said on Wednesday that it would suspend all Twitter use, a little over a week after the social network designated the broadcaster 'U.S. state-affiliated media.' Twitter has since changed the label on the NPR Twitter account to 'Government-funded Media,' a designation it also gave to PBS. That label also appeared on the account of the BBC, the national broadcaster of Britain, until Wednesday, when it was changed to 'publicly funded media.' NPR said Twitter's move could damage its reputation. '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,' Isabel Lara, NPR's chief communications officer, said in a statement. In a letter to staff on Wednesday morning, John Lansing, NPR's chief executive, said that posting on the platform would be a disservice to the staff's journalism. '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,' he wrote." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/12/business/npr-twitter-suspension.html #NMUSNationalPublicRadioNPRIsabelLara #NMUSNationalPublicRadioNPRJohnLansing #BrandTechSocialMediaXFKATwitterGovernmentFundedMedia #NMUSPublicBroadcastingServicePBS #NMUKBBC