Bobby Allyn

Musk reportedly wrote: “So is NPR going to start posting on Twitter again, or should we reassign @NPR to another company?”Image: DCStockPhotography, zef art (Shutterstock)This is why we can’t have nice things. According to a series of emails sent to NPR, Elon Musk apparently threatened to assign the media outlet’s Twitter handle, @NPR, to another account. NPR previously fled Twitter after the outlet labelled it “state-affiliated media.”NPR Is Going Dark on Twitter | Future TechNPR reported on the outlet’s communications…

After making a huge deal about sticking labels on the likes of NPR and the BBC in the name of transparency, Twitter CEO Elon Musk has decided labeling media outlets’ Twitter accounts wasn’t so important, after all, even removing them from known propaganda outlets like Russia Today.The Elon Musk Twitter Saga, Part 1 of Who Knows?Musk told NPR reporter Bobby Allyn on Friday that Twitter had dropped all labels from media outlets on the platform. As of this morning, NPR, the BBC, Voice of America, and PBS, among others, had…

Twitter CEO Elon Musk apparently trusts Wikipedia more than any expert or audited report and uses it to make crucial decisions about press freedom.Mr. Tweet Fumbles Super Bowl TweetMusk told NPR reporter Bobby Allyn on Monday evening that he uses a Wikipedia page on “Publicly-funded broadcasters” to determine which outlets receive Twitter’s controversial new “Government Funded Media” label on their profiles. According to the company’s updated help article on media account labels, Twitter considers outlets to be…

Twitter CEO Elon Musk has decided that NPR is not the same as media outlets like China’s Xinhua News, which is a well-known state propaganda machine, after all, even though he classified them both as “state-affiliated media” on the social media network this past Wednesday. After receiving pushback from NPR, Musk debuted a new label for it this weekend: “Government Funded Media.” The Elon Musk Twitter Saga, Part 1 of Who Knows?Musk changed NPR’s label quietly on Saturday, two days after telling NPR reporter Bobby Allyn…

Twitter CEO Elon Musk is having second thoughts over sticking NPR with a “state-affiliated media” label this past Wednesday, a decision which opened a debate about press freedom and led NPR to stop tweeting in protest.Meta's Apparent Firing GoofMusk told NPR on Thursday that Twitter was still evaluating whether the “state-affiliated media” label belonged on NPR’s account, the outlet stated in a report. Affixing NPR with this label puts it on the same level as outlets like China’s Xinhua News and People’s Daily as well as…