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Twitter recently stopped labeling media organizations as "state-affiliated" and "government-funded." Which media outlets were among those that were previously labeled by Twitter?
Which media organization recently quit Twitter due to how it was labeled by the platform?
What label did Twitter add onto NPR's official account at the beginning of April?
Study Notes
- Twitter has stopped labeling media organizations as "state-affiliated" and "government-funded."
- NPR recently quit the platform over how it was denoted.
- The social media platform nixed all labels for a number of media accounts it had tagged, including Russia's RT, Sputnik, and China's Xinhua.
- The policy page describing the labels disappeared from Twitter's website.
- Twitter removed blue checkmarks denoting verified accounts from scores of feeds earlier on Thursday.
- Twitter added "state-affiliated media" to NPR's official account at the beginning of April.
- NPR receives less than 1 percent of its $300 million annual budget from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
- Twitter also added the "government-funded" tag onto other outlets such as BBC, PBS, and CBC.
- Twitter changed the label from "state-affiliated" to "government-funded."
- NPR exited the platform, becoming the largest media organization to quit the site.
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Description
Think you're up-to-date on the latest Twitter news? Test your knowledge with this quiz on Twitter's recent changes to labeling media organizations as "state-affiliated" and "government-funded." From NPR's departure from the platform to the disappearance of policy pages, see how much you know about Twitter's latest updates. Keywords: Twitter, media organizations, state-affiliated, government-funded, labels, policy pages, NPR.
