Musk feuded on Twitter with British public service giant BBC over labeling

This is the official BBC account with 2.2 million followers given the rating. However, several other accounts of the public service giant did not receive it, including BBC News and BBC Breaking News.

A company spokesperson claims in a statement that the company is in contact with Twitter and hopes for a quick resolution.

The BBC is and always will be independent. The British say they finance us with license fees Telegraph spokesperson.

Twitter has Previously, the label “state affiliated” was used on news sources such as Russia Today and the Chinese news agency Xinhua. Both are tightly controlled by the respective country.

https://twitter.com/BBC/status/1643306321884635167?s=20

According to the platform, “state-affiliated” is defined as news sources where “the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressure and/or control over production and distribution.”

earlier this week The US public service company NPR has also been labeled “State”.

After protests from NPR, Twitter changed “government-affiliated” to “government-funded” even though the company says it receives less than one percent of its annual budget through the US government.

However, Twitter does not know the “government-funded.” The company could not be reached for comment because Twitter recently pulled its communications staff and therefore responds to all media inquiries with an automatically generated email response that features a poop emoji.

Billionaire and CEO Elon Musk also recently argued with The New York Times, which reportedly refused to pay to keep her account blue-checked. Something that made Musk remove the blue tick from the newspaper entirely.

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