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Elon Musk refuses to remove the "government-funded" tag from the BBC's Twitter account
The accounts of the British broadcasting corporation BBC and the American National Public Radio NPR received marks from the social network as “publicly funded publications.” Previously, the Twitter administration labeled Russian and Chinese propaganda media in a similar way. The BBC asked billionaire Twitter owner Elon Musk to remove the flag, but he refused.
The statement of the British corporation emphasizes that it "has always been independent" and is financed "by the British public through license fees".
Twitter owner Elon Musk replied that he himself is a reader of the BBC, as they "have great materials." At the same time, he stressed that in matters of marking accounts, Twitter strives for "maximum transparency and accuracy."
"I don't really think the BBC is as biased as some other government-funded media, but it's stupid for the BBC to claim zero impact," Musk replied.
Marking the accounts of the media and individual journalists, who, according to the leadership of the social network, are associated with the authorities of a particular country, Twitter began in 2020. So, such notes were received, in particular, by the Russian television channel RT, its editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan, the TASS and RIA Novosti agencies.
After the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, Twitter stopped showing the pages of the Russian president, the Foreign Ministry, and the Russian embassy in the UK in recommendations. However, last week The Telegraph found out that the social network began to show these accounts in search results again.
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