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The Tour de France, a highly popular sporting event, can be watched for free across various countries through public service broadcasters and their online platforms, making it accessible without paywalls in many regions.
NPR and other public broadcasters sued the Trump administration over an executive order to defund them, claiming it violates the First Amendment and aims to punish media content they dislike, amid broader conflicts between Trump and media outlets.
Twitter has removed the "government-funded" or "state-affiliated" labels from the accounts of prominent news organizations, including NPR, after criticism from public broadcasters in several countries. The labels were deemed misleading and resulted in the suspension of Twitter use by some broadcasters. Twitter's removal of the labels follows its abrupt removal of verified check marks from profiles and is the latest change made under the leadership of owner Elon Musk. The page detailing Twitter's policy on media labels has also been removed.
Government-funded media outlets, including NPR, are getting upset over Twitter's labeling of them as such. Public broadcasters used to take pride in not working for capitalist enterprises, but now seem ashamed to admit they work in government-backed media.
Swedish Radio has become the first major European public broadcaster to quit Twitter, citing the platform's loss of relevance for a Swedish audience. The move follows similar decisions by US broadcasters NPR and PBS and Canada's CBC, which abandoned the social media platform after it added new labels designating them as "government-funded media". Swedish Radio, which has been on Twitter since 2009, said most accounts would be deleted and others would be labeled as inactive.