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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-affi

• 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.