National Public Radio has decided it’s had enough of Twitter after “Chief Twit” Elon Musk falsely labeled the news organization “state-affiliated media,” placing it in the same league as propaganda outlets from China and Russia.
NPR stopped tweeting from its main account last week after Musk hit it with the designation. After NPR tech reporter Bobby Allyn pressed Musk on the issue, the social media site’s owner acknowledged he might have been mistaken.
Twitter then revised the label to “government-funded,” which NPR also said was misleading as the outlet receives only 1 percent of its funding from the federal government. Additionally, the company is editorially independent and is a private non-profit.
