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On a tangential note, it's bizarre how only certain twitter accounts are marked "state media" and all western media accounts (e.g. BBC) are left alone.

ciarannolan 6y ago
Which ones are marked "state media"? AJE is not: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish https://twitter.com/AJEnglish
- colordrops 6y ago
  https://twitter.com/XHNews https://twitter.com/XHNews I've seen individual Chinese accounts without any publicly known state affiliation marked as well.
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- pmachinery 6y ago
  Media in states that are on the permanent UN Security Council, that aren't Britain, France and the USA. Twitter claims their rule includes them, but if Voice of America doesn't count as "state-affiliated media" then what would?
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- slim 6y ago
  RT and Sputnik news have it. But not "voice of america" https://mobile.twitter.com/VOANews/status/1293306949031911426 https://mobile.twitter.com/VOANews/status/129330694903191142...
  - SpicyLemonZest 6y ago
    Really? That's pretty weird on Twitter's part, cause I know Youtube marks VOA as state media.
    - bawolff 6y ago
      I think youtube marks anything government affiliated. It marks CBC as gov owned and its run at a fair distance from the gov. Maybe twitter is trying to only mark media that is state mouth pieces, then again VoA is literally founded for propaganda purposes.
sudosysgen 6y ago
A French independent media got flagged as owned by Russia because of their covering of Russiagate from a different viewpoin.
- elliekelly 6y ago
  Maybe there isn't any solid evidence (yet) that Ruptures is a Russian fake news outlet but when I poked around their site[1] for all of ten minutes it certainly seemed like it had the makings of one. So I can't say I blame twitter/their algorithm for flagging it as such. When I searched the names of their handful of journalists and editors many of them had made appearances in RT videos on YouTube and Facebook. If it walks like a duck and all... [1] For anyone curious: https://ruptures-presse.fr https://ruptures-presse.fr
  - colordrops 6y ago
    > If it walks like a duck and all... then CNN, MSNBC, FOX, and NYT should be marked as state media as well by that measure.
  - sudosysgen 6y ago
    A lot of people make appearances on RT. Would you ask that if a website had most of their reporters have appearances at some point for the BBC? Would you ask for The Intercept to be classified as state sponsored media? How about the Daily Wire? How about Fox News, MSNBC, CNN? You can't classify a media source as state sponsored simply because its editors agree with an alternative viewpoint. That is just ridiculous.
prvc 6y ago
They should really be asked what is their precise criterion is for using the term "public broadcast service" instead, when it seems to simply be euphemism for the same thing.

ciarannolan 6y ago

Which ones are marked "state media"? AJE is not: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish https://twitter.com/AJEnglish

colordrops 6y ago
https://twitter.com/XHNews https://twitter.com/XHNews I've seen individual Chinese accounts without any publicly known state affiliation marked as well.
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pmachinery 6y ago
Media in states that are on the permanent UN Security Council, that aren't Britain, France and the USA. Twitter claims their rule includes them, but if Voice of America doesn't count as "state-affiliated media" then what would?
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slim 6y ago
RT and Sputnik news have it. But not "voice of america" https://mobile.twitter.com/VOANews/status/1293306949031911426 https://mobile.twitter.com/VOANews/status/129330694903191142...
- SpicyLemonZest 6y ago
  Really? That's pretty weird on Twitter's part, cause I know Youtube marks VOA as state media.
  - bawolff 6y ago
    I think youtube marks anything government affiliated. It marks CBC as gov owned and its run at a fair distance from the gov. Maybe twitter is trying to only mark media that is state mouth pieces, then again VoA is literally founded for propaganda purposes.

sudosysgen 6y ago

A French independent media got flagged as owned by Russia because of their covering of Russiagate from a different viewpoin.

elliekelly 6y ago
Maybe there isn't any solid evidence (yet) that Ruptures is a Russian fake news outlet but when I poked around their site[1] for all of ten minutes it certainly seemed like it had the makings of one. So I can't say I blame twitter/their algorithm for flagging it as such. When I searched the names of their handful of journalists and editors many of them had made appearances in RT videos on YouTube and Facebook. If it walks like a duck and all... [1] For anyone curious: https://ruptures-presse.fr https://ruptures-presse.fr
- colordrops 6y ago
  > If it walks like a duck and all... then CNN, MSNBC, FOX, and NYT should be marked as state media as well by that measure.
- sudosysgen 6y ago
  A lot of people make appearances on RT. Would you ask that if a website had most of their reporters have appearances at some point for the BBC? Would you ask for The Intercept to be classified as state sponsored media? How about the Daily Wire? How about Fox News, MSNBC, CNN? You can't classify a media source as state sponsored simply because its editors agree with an alternative viewpoint. That is just ridiculous.

prvc 6y ago

They should really be asked what is their precise criterion is for using the term "public broadcast service" instead, when it seems to simply be euphemism for the same thing.