You’re getting downvoted because you didn’t read the article, which is about this very issue. Prior to today, Twitter’s policy also said: “state-financed media

You’re getting downvoted because you didn’t read the article, which is about this very issue. Prior to today, Twitter’s policy also said: “state-financed media organizations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK or NPR in the US for example, are not defined as state-affiliated media for the purposes of this policy.” Today they eliminated the clause about NPR, though the BBC one remains. Hence the article’s title.