NPR was recently assigned a 'US state-affiliated media' label on its Twitter profile -- even though the nonprofit news org is clearly not ran by the government -- and now ... Elon Musk appears to be acknowledging they got it wrong.
appears to be flip-flopping on whether Twitter considers the nonprofit news org NPR to be state-run media -- although it's unclear if he's gonna take that label off their account.
The Twit-in-Chief was directly asked about this by an NPR reporter this past week ... and when he was shown the hard numbers on where NPR gets its funding -- with only 1% of it coming from the U.S. government, and a majority of it coming from donors -- he relented a bit. According to the journo -- citing an email exchange he says he was having with Musk personally -- EM apparently didn't understand the difference between public media and state-sanctioned media ... and replied,"Well, then we should fix it" as it pertains to NPR's status.
Musk then supposedly asked for the breakdown of their finances, which the reporter says was provided to him ... to which Musk then apparently responded,"The operating principle at new Twitter is simply fair and equal treatment, so if we label non-US accounts as govt, then we should do the same for US, but it sounds like that might not be accurate here."
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