NPR plans to shut down its Twitter accounts, saying the recent decision by the Elon Musk-owned platform to label it as 'government-funded media' undermines its credibility.
, NPR describes itself as"an independent, non-profit media organization" and says less than 1% of its budget comes from grants from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting and other federal agencies and departments.
after the paper said it would not pay for one. Musk has criticized the way Twitter's previous ownership issued check marks as biased and said his new Twitter Blue option, which allows users to pay $8 a month for a check mark, would create more equitable treatment of the site's users.
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