Twitter removes all labels about government ties from NPR and other outlets

Twitter has stopped labeling media organizations as “state-affiliated” and “government-funded,” including NPR, which recently quit the platform over how it was denoted.

In a move late Thursday night, the social media platform nixed all labels for a number of media accounts it had tagged, dropping NPR’s “government-funded” label along with the “state-affiliated” identifier for outlets such as Russia’s RT and Sputnik, as well as China’s Xinhua.

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