blaine
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Twitter didn’t say they had government appointed staff. They said they were “state affiliated”. Which you just confirmed as 100% true.

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Which implies the presence of government influence like in some authoritarian states. I doubt the US government is dictating their editorial lines.

blaine
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Just because ‘Statement A’ implies ‘Implication B’ does not make ‘Statement A’ any less true.

If you receive 1% of your overall funding from one organization, that’s a close formal association. It doesn’t automatically mean their reporting is compromised or anything else you might assume comes along with that tag, but that tag is definitely accurate in this case.

Then nearly every industry is state affiliated.

Based on Twitter definitions of state affiliated, govt funded, and public funded, NPR aligns the least with state affiliated and most with publicly funded, right?

How state-affiliated media accounts are defined

State-affiliated media is defined as outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution. Accounts belonging to state-affiliated media entities, their editors-in-chief, and/or their prominent staff may be labeled. We will also add labels to Tweets that share links to state-affiliated media websites.

How government-funded media accounts are defined

Government-funded media is defined as outlets where the government provides some or all of the outlet’s funding and may have varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content. We may use external sources similar to this one in order to determine when this label is applied.

How publicly-funded media accounts are defined

Publicly-funded media refers to media organizations that receive funding from license fees, individual contributions, public financing, and commercial financing.

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Don’t expect right-wing people to actually consider anything other than alternative facts.

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Affiliated means close formal or informal association. I think 1% of funding and no government appointed people really doesn’t rise to that standard.

blaine
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Hard disagree. If you receive 1% of your overall funding from one organization, that’s a close formal association. It doesn’t automatically mean their reporting is compromised or anything else you might assume comes along with that tag, but it definitely does apply in this case.

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