After heavy criticism Elon Musk’s Twitter has reversed its decision to label National Public Radio or NPR as “state-affiliated media” and refer to them as “state-funded media” instead.

What happened: Musk decided to “fix” the label after an exchange with an NPR journalist, who updated him on the level of government support the organization receives — just 1% of its annual budget, after to Bloomberg.

NPR CEO John Lansing Twitter previously called the organization “unacceptable” as close to the state.

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Along with NPR, Twitter has labeled the government-funded ones Label for other news agencies such as PBS, Voice of America And BBC.

BBC has objected to told the label “government-funded media” and says it’s “funded by the British public” through the royalty.

In an exchange the BBC had with Musk, he appeared to suggest considering a label that would refer to “accurate sources of funding.”

Why it matters: Twitter has defined state-affiliated media as news organizations where the government exerts control over editorial content through financial means, direct or indirect political pressure, and/or control over production and distribution.

This was previously credited to entities such as Russia’s state-backed international broadcaster rt and China’s Xinhua news.

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