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Does anyone know what NPR did to annoy Elon?
NPR’s Twitter page has been given a “US state-affiliated media” label, a designation normally reserved for outlets like Russia Today or China Xinhua News.
Using the label for NPR directly contradicted Twitter’s own guidelines. “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 for the purposes of this policy,” one support page read as of yesterday. Now, however, the page only references the BBC.
Neither US state-owned news network Voice of America, nor the UK’s BBC have had the label applied. So what did NPR do wrong?
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