CBC pauses Twitter activity after being labeled ‘government-funded media’

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) Monday joined other public broadcasters in “pausing” its Twitter activity, after Twitter applied a “government-funded media” label to its accounts. The CBC wrote on their main account, “Our journalism is impartial and independent. “CBC/Radio-Canada is publicly funded through a parliamentary appropriation that is voted upon by all Members of Parliament,” Mar stated. Musk then changed it again to read “69% government-funded media.”Musk’s push to label independent public broadcasters as being government-affiliated comes as more and more organizations pull back from Twitter. As of November, 50 of Twitter’s top 100 advertisers had either announced or seemingly stopped advertising on the platform.