{"id":22740,"date":"2023-04-09T02:20:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T02:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ab5526dc-2972-4295-a16f-9d0b3f36194c12"},"modified":"2023-04-09T02:20:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T02:20:01","slug":"twitter-removes-us-state-affiliated-media-label-from-npr-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/twitter-removes-us-state-affiliated-media-label-from-npr-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter removes &#8216;US state-affiliated media&#8217; label from NPR account"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/twitter-removes-us-state-affiliated-media-label-from-npr-account.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Twitter has removed a label that designated NPR as a \u201c<span class=\"waslinkname\">US state-affiliated<\/span>\u201d media outlet mere days after first applying the label earlier this week. As of Saturday, the company now lists the public broadcaster as a \u201cgovernment funded\u201d organization. <em>NPR <\/em>tech reporter Bobby Allyn was the first to report on the change. He said Elon Musk told him Twitter would apply the \u201cgovernment funded\u201d designation to other institutions in the coming days. \u201cTesla, which has received billions of dollars in government subsidies over the years, does not appear to have the label,\u201d <span class=\"waslinkname\"><ins>Allyn added<\/ins><\/span>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"afb3214c0d114560ae015eda07481399\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: Label on NPR\u2019s main account changed to \u201cgovernment funded,\u201d and Elon tells me Twitter is \u201capplying it to a larger number of institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bobby Allyn (@BobbyAllyn) <span class=\"waslinkname\">April 8, 2023<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p>The main NPR account has not tweeted since Twitter first applied the state-affiliated label on Wednesday. After NPR CEO John Lansing issued a statement pointing out that the \u201cstate-affiliate\u201d did not apply to the public broadcaster under Twitter\u2019s own guidelines, the company <span class=\"waslinkname\">changed those guidelines<\/span>. &#8220;State-financed media organizations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK or NPR in the US for example, are not defined as state-affiliated media,&#8221; the page said before Tuesday. By Wednesday, the company had removed the section of text that had referenced NPR. <span class=\"waslinkname\"><ins>According to NPR<\/ins><\/span>, less than one percent of its annual operating budget comes from government grants. Over the last five years, the majority of the non-profit\u2019s revenue, about 70 percent, has come from corporate sponsorships and programming fees.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"end-legacy-contents\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has removed a label that designated NPR as a \u201cUS state-affiliated\u201d media outlet mere days after first applying the label earlier this week. As of Saturday, the company now lists the public broadcaster as a \u201cgovernment funded\u201d organization. NPR tech reporter Bobby Allyn was the first to report on the change. He said Elon &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22740"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22740"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.worldtechguide.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=22740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}