I can’t get my head around these institutions not wanting people to know that they are government funded. Do they think that we think more highly of them if they’re funded by arms dealers and slum lords? These orgs should start owning their government funding and arguing that it makes them trustworthy. Of course, they can’t do that, because once this rock is lifted, everyone will see the other bugs crawling around handing out cash. And those 🐛🪲 are capital simpliciter.
It’s more about twooter aesthetics. The state affiliated label exists to smear and strip credibility off of non-Western government news agencies. If they had a label saying “government funded but lawmakers are white” they would have taken it without a tantrum. Instead they are being put into the same category as Russian and Chinese news twitter accounts which they take grave offence to.
I can’t get my head around these institutions not wanting people to know that they are government funded. Do they think that we think more highly of them if they’re funded by arms dealers and slum lords? These orgs should start owning their government funding and arguing that it makes them trustworthy. Of course, they can’t do that, because once this rock is lifted, everyone will see the other bugs crawling around handing out cash. And those 🐛🪲 are capital simpliciter.
It’s more about twooter aesthetics. The state affiliated label exists to smear and strip credibility off of non-Western government news agencies. If they had a label saying “government funded but lawmakers are white” they would have taken it without a tantrum. Instead they are being put into the same category as Russian and Chinese news twitter accounts which they take grave offence to.