While the historic certification badges have disappeared from Twitter, so have the “state-affiliated” or “publicly funded” designations. AFP has indicated that the labels that had been attached to certain media outlets for several days, including the American radio station NPR or the British group BBC, have been removed.
The attribution of these mentions has been strongly questioned by the interested media. Since then, NPR radio has ceased operations on the platform. This is also the case for the Swedish public radio Sveriges Radio (SR).
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In France, the accounts of Radio France, France Télévisions and France Médias Monde had also been labeled as “publicly funded”. From now on, these three accounts will no longer display this label.
Several Western, Russian or Chinese media accounts, including the official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China) or RT, which published this mention in English no longer had it at 6:00 am, according to these findings.
Removed the Twitter Help Center page regarding media tags. It is no longer possible to access it. However, AFP recalls that it could be read in particular: “Media affiliated with a State are defined as those whose editorial content is controlled by this State through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressure and/or control over production.” and distribution”.
“State-funded media organizations with editorial independence, such as the BBC in the UK or NPR in the US, are not defined as state-affiliated media for the purposes of this policy,” the text continued, now Inaccessible.
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Source: BFM TV
