Twitter Labels Major News Outlets as 'Government Funded Media' Amid Backlash

Twitter has changed the label on NPR's social media account from "state-affiliated media" to "government funded" following complaints from NPR and others that the former label was an effort by Elon Musk to disparage the news organization. The "government funded" label appears to be a new one for Twitter, representing a kind of compromise from Twitter's previous labeling. Musk admitted that he actually didn't understand NPR's relationship to the government when he ordered NPR to be designated as state-affiliated.