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.

Source: CBC News April 18, 2023 16:01 UTC