It's so wild witnessing the degradation of Twitter.
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NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
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If thats the threshold, then a whole bunch of other entities should get the "state funded" label, and get it soon.
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#63They will look cool to a certain group of people momentary but it will hurt them in the long run.
The average user won't even notice their tweets are missing from their feed.
Re: NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
#64I 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…
> no mention of Mastodon in this announcement
Mastodon blew its moment. It could have eaten Twitter’s lunch. But onboarding—specifically, choosing a server—was too tedious for non-niche adoption.
Re: NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
#65It's labeled "Government-funded Media".
As with many recent Musk impulsive changes, it's being rapidly revised, and looks to be changing again soon.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65248196
> And he confirmed Twitter will change its newly added label for the BBC's account from "government funded media" to say it is "publicly funded" instead.
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/05/1168158549/twitter-npr-state-... has a screenshot of the "state-affiliated" tag that was recently present.
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#66They were labeled as "state-affiliated media" and after a retraction, Twitter referred to them as "government-funded"
On March 20th, NPR listed this retraction on their website "An earlier version of this story mistakenly said Musk bought Twitter for $44 million. In fact, he paid $44 billion." [1]
Twitter can't make mistakes, but NPR makes dozens of them daily. Should we rage quit NPR everytime they issue a retraction to preserve our own independence and integrity?
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#67Well, there is an interesting history here. E.g. in 2000 NPR (and CNN) allowed the US Army's Psychological Operations division to place military members in the newsroom as interns as part of a media training program: https://fair.org/home/psyops-in-the-newsroom/ > "PSYOPS is a division of the U.S. Army mandated to “develop and disseminate propaganda designed to lower the morale” of “enemy forces,” and to “build suppo…
Yes, but the United States are the Good Guys, so their propaganda outlets must not get the label identifying them as such.
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When Twitter originally created the "state-affiliated" label, the implied meaning was "propaganda rag that you shouldn't trust." It wasn't meant to be applied to any media organization that receives state funding, only those that go against the American mainstream zeitgeist, e.g. the narratives you'll read in the NYTimes or NPR. This label was never meant to mean precisely what it says at face value.
Re: NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
#69Well, there is an interesting history here. E.g. in 2000 NPR (and CNN) allowed the US Army's Psychological Operations division to place military members in the newsroom as interns as part of a media training program: https://fair.org/home/psyops-in-the-newsroom/ > "PSYOPS is a division of the U.S. Army mandated to “develop and disseminate propaganda designed to lower the morale” of “enemy forces,” and to “build suppo…
The 'state-affiliated' label is a bludgeon that the US gets to use, not get used against the US haha.
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#70Yeah, it's not like their CEO came directly from the relevant government bureau, right?
I'm not a fan of Elon (or most companies, for that matter), but this was the right thing to do. Previously the "government-sponsored" badge was nothing more than US propaganda.