CBC Pauses Twitter Accounts After Elon Musk Labels Them as 69 Percent Government Funded

Elon Musk has been making a point to label publicly-funded news organizations as such on Twitter. After he did it to NPR last week, CBC is the latest news outlet labelled as government-funded. As a result of the labelling, CBC announced it will be pausing its Twitter accounts. An example of state media would be the Russian Television and Radio Broadcasting Company where the government actively controls its editorial decisions. It’s unclear if or when CBC will return to Twitter or if Twitter will ever make the distinction between government-funded news organizations and state media in its policies.