Twitter is placing ‘government-funded media’ labels on extra information retailers globally. After tagging US-based media outlet NPR and the UK’s BBC final week, the Elon Musk-owned firm is now labelling Twitter handles of worldwide information retailers.
These media retailers embody Australian Broadcasting Firm (ABC Australia), Australia’s Particular Broadcasting Service (SBS), New Zealand’s public broadcaster RNZ, Sweden’s SR Ekot and SVT and Catalonia’s TV3.cat. The change has resulted in outcry.
The micro-blogging platform earlier labelled BBC a ‘publicly-funded’ to the BBC account and utilized the ‘government-funded’ label to US-based NPR.

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ABC Information mentioned in a tweet that it’s a publicly funded broadcaster, “governed by the ABC Charter which is enshrined in legislation”.
“For more than 90 years, the ABC has always been and remains an independent media organisation, free from political and commercial interests,” the corporate mentioned.
In the meantime, SBS mentioned the label could lead individuals to imagine that the outlet is editorially managed by the federal government.
“While we appreciate Twitter’s motivations with regard to transparency on its platform, we believe a ‘Publicly-funded media’ label better reflects the hybrid public-commercial nature of our funding model and the fact that SBS retains full independence from government in our news editorial and content decision making,” an organization spokesperson mentioned in an announcement.
Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC)/Radio-Canada tweeted that “our journalism is impartial and independent”.
“To suggest otherwise is untrue. That is why we are pausing our activities on @Twitter,” it added.

Media retailers quitting Twitter
Twitter labels are forcing media organisations to stop Twitter. CBC mentioned it’s “pausing” use of Twitter after the platform put a “Government-funded Media” label on its predominant account.
Final week, NPR grew to become the primary main information organisation to stop Twitter after getting a government-funded organisation label. After NPR, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) additionally left Twitter after being labelled as government-backed media.