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Twitter removed the label designating NPR as a “US government” media outlet just days after it was first applied earlier this week. As of Saturday, the company now lists the public broadcaster as a “government-funded” organization. NPR Tech reporter Bobby Allyn was the first to report this change. He said Elon Musk told him Twitter would apply the “government-funded” designation to other agencies in the coming days. “Tesla, which has received billions of dollars in government subsidies over the years, does not appear to have a label.” .
NEW: NPR’s main account label changed to “Government Funded,” Elon says Twitter is “applying to more institutions.”
— Bobby Allyn (@BobbyAllyn) April 8, 2023
NPR’s main account has not tweeted since Twitter first applied the national label on Wednesday. After NPR’s CEO John Lansing issued a statement, pointing out that under Twitter’s own guidelines, “national affiliates” do not apply to public broadcasters, the company said: changed those guidelines“National media organizations with editorial independence, such as the BBC in the UK or NPR in the US, are not defined as national media,” Page said before Tuesday. removed the section of text that referred to NPR. , less than 1% of its annual operating budget comes from government subsidies. Over the past five years, the majority of nonprofit revenues (about 70%) came from corporate sponsorships and programming fees.