Key takeaways:
- NPR announced it will no longer post content on its 52 official Twitter accounts.
- Twitter labeled NPR as “state-affiliated media”, which NPR said undermines its credibility.
- NPR joins a growing list of news organizations that have decided to leave the platform.
National Public Radio (NPR) announced on Monday that it will no longer post content on its 52 official Twitter accounts. The decision comes after Twitter labeled the news organization as “state-affiliated media” last week.
In a statement to The Press, an NPR spokesperson said, “NPR’s organizational accounts will no longer be active on Twitter because the platform is taking actions that undermine our credibility by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent.”
Twitter later changed the label to “government-funded media,” but NPR said the labels “undermine our credibility by falsely implying that we are not editorially independent.”
NPR is a private, editorially independent nonprofit that receives less than 1% of its annual budget from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which is federally funded. The news organization said the labels are misleading and that it will no longer use the platform.
The decision to quit Twitter comes as the social media platform faces criticism for its handling of misinformation and hate speech. NPR joins a growing list of news organizations that have decided to leave the platform, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
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