<p>National Public Radio&#8217;s official Twitter account received the designation of being state-sponsored media this week, angering left-wing journalists at the company while eliciting mockery from conservatives online.</p>
<p>Under the account&#8217;s verification badge, the words &#8220;US state-affiliated media&#8221; now appear. The organization does receive U.S. taxpayer funding.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Twitter has now correctly branded NPR as US state-affiliated media. It is an accurate description. <a href="https://t.co/ewg35r4xIL">pic.twitter.com/ewg35r4xIL</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href="https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1643482527234154497?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 5, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p>In response to an account posting a screenshot of the NPR&#8217;s label on the platform,  Twitter CEO Elon Musk shared the company’s policy on labeling state-affiliated media.</p>
<p>&#8220;State-affiliated media is defined as outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution,&#8221; the Twitter policy says.</p>
<p>NPR President John Lansing lashed out at the designation, claiming that the organization provides &#8220;independent, fact-based journalism.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We were disturbed to see last night that Twitter has labeled NPR as &#8216;state-affiliated media,&#8217; a description that, per Twitter&#8217;s own guidelines, does not apply to NPR,&#8221; he said. &#8220;NPR and our Member stations are supported by millions of listeners who depend on us for the independent, fact-based journalism we provide.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;NPR stands for freedom of speech and holding the powerful accountable,&#8221; he claimed. &#8220;It is unacceptable for Twitter to label us this way. A vigorous, vibrant free press is essential to the health of our democracy.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">NPR stands for freedom of speech &amp; holding the powerful accountable. A vigorous, vibrant free press is essential to the health of our democracy. <br />My full statement on the recent inaccurate Twitter label below: <a href="https://t.co/kdusUNtNUo">pic.twitter.com/kdusUNtNUo</a></p>
<p>&mdash; John Lansing (@johnlansing) <a href="https://twitter.com/johnlansing/status/1643632082780913665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 5, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p>NPR infamously refused to cover the Hunter Biden laptop scandal in the weeks before the 2020 presidential election.</p>
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<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don&#8217;t want to waste the listeners&#8217; and readers&#8217; time on stories that are just pure distractions,&#8221; NPR Managing Editor Terence Samuels said at the time in explaining why the publication would not cover the story.</p>
<p>Actor Dean Cain responded, &#8220;Taxpayer money should NOT fund NPR.&#8221;</p>
<p>Daily Caller editor Vince Coglianese tweeted: &#8220;Notice that he doesn’t even bother to acknowledge the role government funding does play in subsidizing NPR. This is written like a statement from a political campaign.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8216;[H]olding the powerful accountable&#8217; — @NPR unquestioningly carried water for the nation&#8217;s establishment &amp; elite during COVID and submits to the same political narrative that is uniformly espoused by the fed. government, academia, Hollywood, medicine, science, and media,&#8221; said Bryan Griffin, press secretary for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.</p>

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