NPR leaves Twitter due to misleading ‘government-funded media’ label

NPR will no longer update its 52 Twitter accounts, including the primary @NPR handle, which has nearly 9 million followers. These accounts include NPR’s topic-specific feeds like NPR Politics, as well as individual radio shows like Weekend Edition.
Last week, Twitter placed a “state-affiliated media” label on NPR’s account, representing the American news non-profit in the same way that it denotes RT, Russia’s state-backed mouthpiece that pushes the Kremlin’s talking points to the broader world. But the U.S. government does not have any sort of editorial control ov

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