NPR leaves Twitter amid dispute over labeling
Owned by Elon Musk, NPR said that the social media company’s label of their organization is meant to undermine its credibility. NPR will stop sharing content on Twitter, the company announced Wednesday -- a rebuke of certain label s the social media platform attached to the news outlet. The international media non-profit said the categorization -- first as "US state-affiliated media" and later "government-funded media" -- prompted the outlet to stop posting "fresh content to its 52 official Twitter feeds," according to a Wednesday statement. "It would be a disservice to the serious work you all do here to continue to share it on a platform that is associating the federal charter for public media with an abandoning of editorial independence or standards," NPR CEO John Lansing said in an email to staff explaining the decision. A view of the National Public Radio (NPR) headquarters on North Capitol Street, Feb. 22, 2023, in Washington. Drew Angerer/...