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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…

NPR’s Twitter account received a state-affiliated media label on Wednesday for reportedly being an entity with editorial independence although the outlet receives some funding from the government. The state-affiliated media label has historically been applied to foreign media outlets providing official government views.Twitter Verification is a Hot MessTwitter’s Help Center says, “Labels on government accounts provide additional context for accounts heavily engaged in geopolitics and diplomacy.” The company uses the BBC…

A Florida Power & Light technician repairs a line in Miami Gardens in 2016. Photo: Alan Diaz (AP)A political consulting firm has been helping some of the country’s most powerful utilities pay local news outlets to publish positive stories and propaganda and stamp out criticism, according to an investigation by NPR and Floodlight News published Monday.The investigation details how Matrix LLC, a firm operating out of Montgomery, Alabama, has paid six local news outlets hundreds of thousands of dollars over the past…