But he spoke the truth
NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
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#12It's so wild witnessing the degradation of Twitter.
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#15But he spoke the truth
In the BBC's case, he's acknowledge it's not accurate. NPR's case is similar (and even less "state affiliated" than they are).
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65248196
> Mr Musk said Twitter was adjusting the label for the BBC to "publicly-funded". "We're trying to be accurate," he said.
If NPR is state affiliated because of 1% government funding, SpaceX should get the tag.
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#16I wonder if this will have any domino effect, right now the only thing holding Twitter together is its network effects. According to the article on NPR's site[0], they have 8.7 million followers and run 52 different accounts so Twitter is losing a pretty important partner. Also, no mention of Mastodon in this announcement. It sounds like they're just going to use Facebook for the time being. 0: https://www.npr.org/20…
Last week, the Federal Reserve issued an important update on twitter. So no, I don't think twitter is worried about losing NPR. Twitter has the strongest network effects of any contemporary social network.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why engage on the platform when it’s rigged by a narcissist? Like the Greyrock method, disengage. Twitter only has value so long as it has network effect. People leaving diminish it. So why not?
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Tesla and SpaceX combined have obtained $5 billion in subsidies from the US government. NPR’s budget subsidy is less than one percent (~$3M).
The label is not accurate, it’s a weapon of childish behavior.
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#18> It receives less than 1 percent Why do they keep saying they receive almost nothing, yet at the same time say government funding is essential to their operation?
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#19well done. losing NPR clearly is giving Musk pause.
By "clearly giving him pause" you mean he finally went to bed after spending the evening joking about BBC?
(At this moment the last tweet is 8 hours ago after several tweets about BBC including dick "jokes")
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#20I've seen government-funded ads on Twitter. Wouldn't it be ironic if Twitter's revenue share from government sources is larger than NPR's 1-2%?