Twitter Labeling Sparks CBC and NPR to Quit Platform
TL;DR
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has paused its use of Twitter after the social media platform labelled it "government-funded media," a term that the public broadcaster says undermines its credibility. CBC has sent a letter to Twitter asking the company to re-examine the designation. Twitter initially had labelled NPR’s main account as “state-affiliated media,” a term also used to identify media outlets controlled or heavily influenced by authoritarian governments, such as Russia and China.
- CBC 'pausing' Twitter after 'government-funded media' label The Associated Press
- Justin Trudeau accuses rival of ‘running to American billionaires’ in CBC Twitter row The Guardian
- Canada Public Broadcaster Joins NPR in Quitting Twitter Over Label Uproar The Wall Street Journal
- Letters to the editor: 'I see no evidence that Pierre Poilievre himself has ever been anything other than funded by government.' Twitter and CBC, plus other letters to the editor for April 16 The Globe and Mail
- Trudeau, rival clash over Twitter labeling CBC 'government funded' Reuters Canada
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