NPR quits Twitter over 'government-funded' label

National Public Radio (NPR) has announced that it volition halt utilizing Twitter successful a enactment implicit however its relationship is described.

The US not-for-profit quality organisation clashed with the societal media level implicit its determination to picture the outlet arsenic "government-funded media".

NPR says it undermines its credibility, arsenic US authorities backing accounts for little than 1% of its budget.

Twitter proprietor Elon Musk has promised to alteration the statement connected the BBC's account.

In an interrogation with BBC News connected Tuesday evening, Mr Musk said helium wanted labels to beryllium truthful and accurate, but did not notation to NPR.

NPR said successful a connection connected Wednesday that Twitter was "taking actions that undermine our credibility by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent".

"We are not putting our journalism connected platforms that person demonstrated an involvement successful undermining our credibility and the public's knowing of our editorial independence," the connection said.

The determination makes NPR the archetypal large US quality outlet to suspend its usage of Twitter, contempt the organisation having 8.8m followers connected the platform.

The outlet encouraged radical to alternatively subscribe to its newsletters and travel NPR on different societal media.

On its website, NPR defines itself arsenic "an independent, non-profit media organisation".

It operates connected a mixed-funding exemplary that it says mostly includes firm sponsorships, fees paid by NPR subordinate organisations and donations.

It comes aft the BBC disputed the aforesaid "government-funded media" statement added to its @BBC account.

The BBC operates done a Royal Charter agreed with the UK government, which states the corp "must beryllium independent".

Its public-service output is funded by UK households via a TV licence fee, arsenic good arsenic income from commercialized operations.

On Tuesday, Mr Musk - who bought Twitter successful October - pledged that the BBC's "government-funded media" statement volition beryllium changed.

"We privation [the tag] arsenic truthful and close arsenic possible. We're adjusting the statement to [the BBC being] publically funded. We'll effort to beryllium accurate," Mr Musk said.

Twitter has not publically defined however it determines media organisation backing oregon what constitutes "government-funded media".