April 21 (Reuters) – Twitter dropped the “Authorities-funded” and “China state-affiliated” labels, which suggests authorities involvement in editorial content material, from the accounts of varied world media organizations, their profiles confirmed on Friday.
Twitter dropped the “Authorities-funded Media” label from the accounts of U.S.-based Nationwide Public Radio (NPR), British Broadcasting Corp and Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC).
It additionally dropped the “China state-affiliated media” tag on the accounts of Xinhua Information in addition to of journalists related to government-backed publications.
Whereas Chinese language publishers’ accounts, together with these of their senior workers in addition to of some key authorities officers, began getting the label in 2020, the likes of NPR and CBC have been labeled solely earlier this month.
That led NPR and CBC to cease posting to their Twitter accounts, arguing that the label didn’t precisely seize their governance construction.
In a BBC interview final week, Twitter’s billionaire proprietor Elon Musk mentioned the social media platform was making an attempt to be “correct” and looking out into amending the label.
“Our purpose is solely to be as truthful and correct as potential. We’re adjusting the label to be ‘publicly funded’, which I believe is maybe not too objectionable,” Musk had mentioned.
Twitter, NPR, CBC and BBC didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon the removing of the tag.
Twitter on Thursday additionally eliminated the legacy verified blue tick from the profile of hundreds of individuals, together with celebrities, journalists and outstanding politicians comparable to Hillary Clinton.
Amongst these shedding their badges have been former U.S. president Donald Trump, Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) co-founder Invoice Gates and actuality TV star Kim Kardashian.
Reporting by Jahnavi Nidumolu in Bengaluru; Modifying by Dhanya Ann Thoppil
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