Twitter has put a “government-funded media” label on CBC’s account in what is the latest move by the social media company to stamp public broadcasters with designations.
“Government-funded media is defined as outlets where the government provides some or all of the outlet’s funding and may have varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content,” according to Twitter.
National Public Radio in the U.S. announced earlier this month that it is leaving the platform after Twitter labelled its account as “state-affiliated media,” saying that doing so undermines their credibility by “falsely implying that we are not editorially independent.”
U.S. public broadcaster PBS followed suit, also leaving
