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defames?

burkaman 4y ago
https://twitter.com/NPR https://twitter.com/NPR https://web.archive.org/web/20230404115255/https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/state-affiliated https://web.archive.org/web/20230404115255/https://help.twit...: > 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.
- antibasilisk 4y ago
  evidently, policy changed. I'm not sure about NPR but the BBC is most definitely not 'editorially independent'
  - burkaman 4y ago
    Can you come up with a coherent policy that would consider NPR "state-affiliated" but not BBC? That's Twitter's current position. The only argument for NPR is that it has received government funding, which means Tesla's account (and thousands of other businesses) should also have the state-affiliated label.
    - antibasilisk 4y ago
      I'm guessing Twitter just hasn't gotten around to it/doesn't have much awareness of what's going on in the UK. BBC should definitely be classified as state-affiliated media.
      - burkaman 4y ago
        That's quite hard to believe, since until 3 days ago they explicitly called out the BBC as an example in that help page I linked. Note that they also haven't labeled American accounts such as Voice of America, which actually deserves the label and is owned by the US government. The only explanations are severe incompetence (the Twitter team in charge of identifying state-affiliated media has never heard of the BBC) or malice (there is no such team anymore, NPR was directly targeted by someone who doesn't like them and falsely assumed they are government-funded). I think it's obvious this was malice, but you're entitled to your opinion. Consider though that your explanation accuses them of incredible negligence. If you don't have time to evaluate the biggest media organizations in the world, then you don't roll out a state-affiliated media label to your global platform.
        antibasilisk 4y ago
        I'm ok with accusing them of negligence, and I don't find it hard to believe given their recent pattern of behavior.

defames?

https://twitter.com/NPR https://twitter.com/NPR https://web.archive.org/web/20230404115255/https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/state-affiliated https://web.archive.org/web/20230404115255/https://help.twit...: > 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.

antibasilisk 4y ago
evidently, policy changed. I'm not sure about NPR but the BBC is most definitely not 'editorially independent'
- burkaman 4y ago
  Can you come up with a coherent policy that would consider NPR "state-affiliated" but not BBC? That's Twitter's current position. The only argument for NPR is that it has received government funding, which means Tesla's account (and thousands of other businesses) should also have the state-affiliated label.
  - antibasilisk 4y ago
    I'm guessing Twitter just hasn't gotten around to it/doesn't have much awareness of what's going on in the UK. BBC should definitely be classified as state-affiliated media.
    - burkaman 4y ago
      That's quite hard to believe, since until 3 days ago they explicitly called out the BBC as an example in that help page I linked. Note that they also haven't labeled American accounts such as Voice of America, which actually deserves the label and is owned by the US government. The only explanations are severe incompetence (the Twitter team in charge of identifying state-affiliated media has never heard of the BBC) or malice (there is no such team anymore, NPR was directly targeted by someone who doesn't like them and falsely assumed they are government-funded). I think it's obvious this was malice, but you're entitled to your opinion. Consider though that your explanation accuses them of incredible negligence. If you don't have time to evaluate the biggest media organizations in the world, then you don't roll out a state-affiliated media label to your global platform.
      - antibasilisk 4y ago
        I'm ok with accusing them of negligence, and I don't find it hard to believe given their recent pattern of behavior.