Different radios have left Elon Musk’s platform after they objected to the labels Twitter gave them on their “government-funded media” profiles.

Francisco Juarez

two strings of public radio in the United States and Canada will leave Twitter, after the platform tagged them in their profiles as government funded media.

The Société Radio-Canada announced to its audience that it was leaving its accounts on the digital social network of Elon Muskafter the profile of the CBC/Radio-Canada appeared with this caption.

It’s a statement, Leon Mar, spokesperson for Radio-Canada, regretted that Twitter undermine the independence of the public environment.

“Twitter can be a powerful tool for our journalists to communicate with Canadians, but it undermines the reliability and professionalism of their work by allowing our independence to be misrepresented in this way.”

Our journalism is impartial and independent. To suggest otherwise is wrong. This is why we are suspending our activities on @Twitter. | Our journalism is impartial and independent. Pretending otherwise is wrong. This is why we are suspending our activities on @Twitter.

— CBC/Radio-Canada (@CBCRadioCanada) April 17, 2023

The label to the account of Radio Canada This happened days after Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre of the Conservative Party of CanadaHe asked Twitter give this designation

For the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeauthis measure is an “attack on a Canadian founding institution”.

US broadcasters say goodbye to Twitter

The train station KPBS from San Diego also left the platform for the same reason. In one broadcast, he explained to his listeners that Twitter It has not been an “effective or reliable network for growing audiences”.

Moreover, the decision to label the National Public Radio (NPR) and bp as “government-funded media” are actions that falsely accuse them of disseminating propaganda when they are editorially independent.

Therefore, they consider that these actions undermine the integrity and credibility of the public media as a system and KPBS. Just last week, the NPR let the digital social network for the same reason.

📣 Announcement: Read this thread for more information 🧵 pic.twitter.com/ygDxeQumge

—KPBS News (@KPBSnews) April 17, 2023

Elon Musk teases

Despite public media criticism, the platform owner ironically shared a tweet about CBC’s request and wrote the following:

“The Canadian Broadcasting Corp said it was ‘less than 70% funded by the government,’ so we corrected the label.”

Now the label says half is 69% government funded.

Canadian Broadcasting Corp said they were “less than 70% government funded” so we corrected the label pic.twitter.com/lU1EWf76Zu

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 18, 2023

Swedish public radio says goodbye

Swedish Public Radio will also leave Twitter due to its low relevance to audiences in that country.

Radio station Sveriges said on its blog that it would start closing accounts from April 18.

“Sveriges Radio has long deprioritized its presence on Twitter and has now made the decision to no longer be active on the platform, at the same time as we are closing several accounts.”

Public radio shared a study showing that only around 7% of Swedes are on Twitter daily and said the platform “has just changed over the years and become less important”.

RTVE joins critics on Twitter

Spanish public radio and television have requested Twitter that he remove the new label he has imposed on his accounts: “State-funded media”.

the accounts of RTVERTVE News, RTVE communication and participation and RTVE Play They have this description.

For this reason, RTVE Corporation requested that it be changed to “state-funded support”.

In one release of RTVE, recalled that the designation is that currently held by the British channel BBC On the platform. Furthermore, he pointed out that they are erroneous and contrary to the essence of Spanish radio and television. The Society reiterates editorial independence as one of its hallmarks.

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