Public Media Body Demands Twitter Drop “Government-Funded Media” Label From All Accounts

It may have ceded to the BBC, but Elon Musk’s Twitter is back under pressure from the world’s public service broadcasters. The Global Task Force for Public Media has called on the social media platform to correct the designation of four of its members on the site. This comes after Twitter this week upped its efforts in labeling public media bodies on its site. The Public Media Alliance has analyzed 50 public service media accounts and found what it calls an “inconsistent and incoherent patchwork of labels.” For example, PBS and NPR are labeled as “Government-funded,” though neither directly receive money from U.S. state, as are Italy’s Rai, Spain’s RTVE and Australian diversity-focused network SBS. RNZ was due to merge with TVNZ to form a new public media group, Aotearoa New Zealand Public Media, but this was scrapped in February less than a month before it was due to take place.