CBC to pause activities on Twitter after being labelled ‘government-funded media’

The CBC and Radio Canada have announced they’ll be pausing their activities on Twitter after the company labelled the main CBC account ‘government funded media’ on Sunday night. The break will extend to all the public broadcaster’s news and corporate Twitter accounts, a spokesperson for the company told the Star. The CBC has since sent a letter to Twitter asking the company to reconsider the designation, they continued. “That is why we are pausing our activities on @Twitter”Notably, only the main account @CBC was given the label. When asked for comment, Twitter responded with a poop emoji — as it has done for all media inquiries since March.