Elon Musk's Twitter Tags BBC and NPR as "Government Funded Media"
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Elon Musk's Twitter account has labeled the BBC's official account as "government funded media," despite the fact that the BBC is funded by the British public through a license fee, not the government. The BBC has stated that it is speaking to Twitter to resolve the issue. Musk had previously added a similar tag to the NPR account, causing controversy.
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