NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
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NPR's official Twitter feeds have gone silent. The news organization cites the social media platform's decision to label NPR as "state-affiliated media."
  • @Cysioland
    21•1 year ago

    They should absolutely do the Polish TVP next. It literally meets their criteria (is directly funded and controlled by the government)

    • Neptium
      8•1 year ago

      This just made me check if the Malaysian one, Bernama and RTM is labelled and nope it isn’t.

      I guess it only applies to current Western geopolitical enemies and in typical liberal “both sides” fashion they label some Amerikan ones as well to seem fair.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      23•1 year ago

      lol we all know it’s a stunt and they’ll quietly come crawling back later

  • @allinwonderornot
    18•1 year ago

    That’s the problem with using this kind of labels for propaganda purposes: it will eventually come back and bite you.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
      4•1 year ago

      What’s more is that the whole free speech narrative ultimately hinged on these people having media dominance. As long as they controlled what the mainstream views were, a bit of dissent was allowed at the edges. The fact that dissent was allowed fed into propaganda narrative that the mainstream views were popular because of their correctness. This helped create a system of self censorship where people ignored any information that didn’t come from the official sources. Now that they’re losing control of the narrative they’re starting to panic.

  • @redtea
    16•1 year ago

    Paper tigers

    Edit: what does npr stand for?

    • JucheBot1988
      16•1 year ago

      Absolutely not National Public Radio. Never, not in any world.

      • @redtea
        12•1 year ago

        I didn’t think so.

        (I suppose this is what happens in a world where the bourgeoisie thinks it is entitled to everything national and public; they can no longer fathom that national and public might not mean private and for-profit.)

  • PurpleHats
    11•1 year ago

    Can anyone share some sources on NPR? My mom is always talking about how they’re a good source.

    • Comrade Ben
      8•1 year ago

      Idk got any good sources but my dad listened to them but I asked him to stop and he did

    • @Beat_da_Rich
      5•1 year ago

      For domestic stuff, sure thing. For foreign policy? Shit lib central.

      Their programming is also largely funded by Amazon now.

  • @supersolid_snake
    11•1 year ago

    Wouldn’t the label make their lib audience love them even more