Spanish public radio and television asked Twitter to withdraw the new label it imposed in your accounts: “Government funded media”. The Twitter accounts of RTVE, RTVE Noticias, RTVE Comunicación y Participación and RTVE Play all have this qualification: “The RTVE Corporation has asked Twitter to remove the label ‘Government Funded Support’ and that, in its case, be replaced by ‘Publicly funded support’, says A declaration of RTVE. This designation is what the channel now has bbc british.

A few days ago and at the request of Elon Musk, owner of Twitter since October, the network began to apply the label of “state-affiliated media” to other public media, which was not until then applied only to Russia Today or the Chinese Xinhua Agency. Until then, editorially independent media such as the BBC or the American PBS and NPR were exempt from a similar rating. Twitter’s original hashtag for these English channels was “government funded”, which RTVE now has. Musk then agreed to move to “state-funded.”

The BBC continues to tweet under this new label, but the Americans NPR and PBS or the Canadian CBC refused and put their activity on the social network on hold. RTVE has yet to make another decision until it hears Twitter’s response to its request. “The RTVE Corporation has conveyed to Twitter its total disagreement with the social network’s unilateral decision to include the label ‘Government-funded media’ in the Company’s social accounts,” said the statement from the Spanish channel. “These labels on RTVE’s Twitter accounts are false and contrary to the essence of Radiotelevisión Española. The Society reiterates editorial independence as one of its hallmarks. RTVE is a public broadcaster funded by a general budget allocation approved by Parliament, as well as two other private sources of funding. The editorial independence and that of the workers of the Company by the government or any body or representative of the public administration is protected by Law 17/2006″.

With Musk, it’s hard to negotiate those kinds of labels. CBC Canadians have been given their own label of “70% government funded”. When there were complaints that this figure was “lower”, Musk responded with “generosity” and a new label, which still stands: “Half 69% government funded”.

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