Twitter urged to remove "government-funded media" label by public media body.
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The Global Task Force for Public Media has called on Twitter to correct the designation of four of its members on the site, including the ABC in Australia, CBC/Radio Canada, Korean Broadcasting System, and Radio New Zealand, which are currently labeled as "Government-funded Media." The Global Task Force said that labeling them as such "misleads audiences about their operational and editorial independence from government." The networks have requested the "Publicly-funded Media" label instead. Twitter has been criticized for its inconsistent and incoherent patchwork of labels for public service media bodies on its site.
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