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Twitter flagged NPR as state-affiliated media on Tuesday, a label that is usually saved for media outlets representing foreign governments like Russia’s RT and China’s Xinhua.
The decision to tag the company as state-affiliated media is a clear change in Twitter policy. Users pointed out that, before Tuesday, Twitter’s own policy said NPR specifically was not state-affiliated media.
“Accounts belonging to state-affiliated media entities, their editors-in-chief, and/or their prominent staff may be labeled. State-financed media organizations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK or NPR in the US for example, are not defined as state-affiliated media for the purposes of this policy,” the policy read.
The current policy still mentions the BBC but not NPR.
Several NPR employees lashed out at Twitter CEO Elon Musk after the change was noticed.
