Public Media Body Demands Twitter Drops “Government-Funded Media” Label From All Accounts
deadline.comIt may have ceded to the BBC, but Elon Musk’s Twitter is back under pressure from the world’s public service broadcasters. The Global Task Force for Public Media has called on the social media platform to correct the designation of four of its members on the site.
The ABC in Australia, CBC/Radio Canada, Korean Broadcasting System and Radio New Zealand are currently labelled as “Government-funded Media” on their official Twitter accounts, the same titled that was bestowed on the UK’s PSB, The BBC.
Labelling them as such “misleads audiences about their operational and editorial independence from government,” the Global Task Force said in a statement signed by its eight members, which include the four networks impacted, the BBC, France Télévisions, ZDF in Germany and SVT in Sweden.
The statement notes Twitter’s own policy defines government-funded media as organizations that “may have varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content.” This is not the case with the ABC, CBC/Radio Canada, KBS or RNZ.
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