Twitter CEO Elon Musk is calling for defunding NPR after the broadcaster had a meltdown and quit Twitter because Musk is calling them ‘State-affiliated media and Government-funded Media.’ NPR said it will no longer post fresh content to its 52 official Twitter feeds.
NPR cited Twitter’s decision to first label the network “state-affiliated media,” the same term it uses for propaganda outlets in Russia, China and other autocratic countries for making this extraordinary decision. Twitter drives impressions to NPR and after the broadcaster had to institute layoffs you would think they would be thanking Musk.
NPR CEO John Lansing said: “At this point I have lost my faith in the decision-making at Twitter. I would need some time to understand whether Twitter can be trusted again.
“The downside, whatever the downside, doesn’t change that fact.
“I would never have our content go anywhere that would risk our credibility.”
In an email to staff explaining the decision, Lansing wrote:
“It would be a disservice to the serious work you all do here to continue to share it on a platform that is associating the federal charter for public media with an abandoning of editorial independence or standards.”
Musk fired back saying:
“NPR literally said “Federal funding is essential to public radio” on their own website (now taken down).
“What hypocrites!
“Defund NPR.”
NPR literally said “Federal funding is essential to public radio” on their own website (now taken down).
What hypocrites! pic.twitter.com/kYAXW0zpyl
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 12, 2023
Defund @NPR
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 12, 2023
Tucker hilariously SNAPS on Regime-funded NPR after Elon Musk literally exposes them to world as “State media” on Twitter 🔥
“NPR is not that much different to the Tehran Times, except, of course being less accurate and more anti-American.” pic.twitter.com/UHg7PKjujs
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) April 7, 2023
