PBS also stops tweeting after being hit with ‘Government-funded Media’ label

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) has stopped tweeting from its main Twitter account after it was given a “Authorities-funded Media” label. As of this writing the @PBS account hasn’t tweeted since April eighth, and the group has since confirmed that it at the moment has “no plans” to renew posting to Twitter. 

“PBS stopped tweeting from our account once we discovered of the change and we’ve no plans to renew right now,” PBS spokesman Jason Phelps tells Bloomberg. “We’re persevering with to watch the ever-changing state of affairs intently.” Whereas PBS isn’t tweeting from its most important account, it’s continued to place out content material on affiliated accounts like @NewsHour, which haven’t had the “Authorities-funded” label utilized.

The choice by the general public broadcaster follows the same transfer made by Nationwide Public Radio (NPR), which formally introduced it might be leaving Twitter after being labeled as government-funded. Twitter initially labeled NPR as “US state-affiliated media,” utilizing terminology often reserved for state-backed retailers that aren’t editorially unbiased like Russia At present or China Xinhua Information. It later modified the label to “Authorities-funded Media.”

“We’re not placing our journalism on platforms which have demonstrated an curiosity in undermining our credibility and the general public’s understanding of our editorial independence,” NPR CEO John Lansing mentioned in a memo to workers.