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• @jesselehrich Jesse Lehrich on x

  Elon has fully unshackled CCP & Kremlin propaganda. now Dmitry Medvedev is getting 7,000 RTs calling for genocide. https://www.npr.org/... https://twitter.com/...

• @shannonpareil Shannon Bond on x

  a 🔥 @darakerr scoop: even before Twitter stopped labeling accounts as “state-affiliated media” or “government official”, it dropped its guardrails intended to stem the flow of govt propaganda from Russia, China & Iran https://www.npr.org/...

• @dfrlab @dfrlab on x

  A @DFRLab analysis of three state controlled media networks found that following a change in @Twitter's policy on the promotion of state affiliated media accounts, the once hemorrhaging accounts saw a dramatic uptick in followers. @AlyssaKann reports 🧵👇 https://dfrlab.org/...

• @davidgura David Gura on x

  Dmitry Medvedev “took to Twitter earlier this month to denigrate Ukraine in a post using language reminiscent of genocidal regimes. And Twitter didn't stop him.” “Previous guardrails on government accounts in Russia, China and Iran have now been removed.” https://www.npr.org/...

• @inafried Ina Fried on x

  Reminder: it's not all fun and games https://www.npr.org/...

• @kenroth Kenneth Roth on x

  Is @ElonMusk really so benighted as to be unable to distinguish between a media outlet with state funding that retains editorial independence and a state-funded propaganda outlet? https://www.reuters.com/...

• @omunderdal Olav Mitchell Underdal on x

  Twitter once muzzled Russian and Chinese state propaganda. That's over now - The company used “visibility filtering rules” in order to curtail propaganda and misinformation. Under Elon Musk, those guidelines have been discarded. via NPR https://www.npr.org/...

• @jonkeegan@mastodon.social Jon Keegan on mastodon

  Wow I continue to be amazed at how each of Musk's missteps somehow ends up getting worse when he inevitably walks it back.  After the “Government funded” NPR kerfuffle now that whole class of labels is just gone for everyone. …

• @bobbyallyn Bobby Allyn on x

  NEW: Elon Musk tells me Twitter has now dropped all media labels. Asked why, Musk says: “This was Walter Isaacson's suggestion.”

• @jsrailton John Scott-Railton on x

  But wait, there's more. Twitter deleted “state-affiliated media” labels. I'm sure Russia, China & Iran are tickled. https://twitter.com/...

• @ngrossman81 Nicholas Grossman on x

  Editor in chief of RT thanks Elon Musk for freeing her outlet from the state media label and making her appear more in searches. “Cui bono”—look for who benefits, assume they caused it—is often conspiracy theorizing. I doubt RT caused Twitter's changes. But they sure do benefit. …

• @afp @afp on x

  #UPDATE Twitter has dropped “state-affiliated” and “government-funded” labels from media accounts, according to a review by @AFP on Friday of many high-profile pages on the platform Many major media outlets that had either of those tags no longer display them, according to AFP. h…

• @edzitron Ed Zitron on x

  they've now removed the gold check lol https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @charlesarthur Charles Arthur on x

  If they're labelled as “publicly funded” that'll be a form of verification, no? https://twitter.com/...

• @sahilkapur Sahil Kapur on x

  Looks like Twitter has indeed backtracked and removed the label from @NPR after the move promoted the news org to stop using this app. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @lawindsor Lauren Windsor on x

  Amidst the blue check chaos, I want to note that I pay for Twitter Blue to be able to post longer-form videos like the one today on Cleta Mitchell that is featured in the blockbuster reporting by the Washington Post. *Not for verification.*

• @mattnavarra Matt Navarra on x

  Major news publishers on Twitter have had their gold checkmark verification removed including @skynews, @BBCR1 and @BBCBreaking https://twitter.com/...

• @b_fung Brian Fung on x

  After losing his check mark on Thursday, Pope Francis is Twitter verified once again, while all labeling of media outlets (including state-affiliated media) has ceased: https://www.cnn.com/...

• @oliverdarcy Oliver Darcy on x

  This also means that labels warning users they were seeing content from propaganda outlets, such as Russia's RT, are gone. https://twitter.com/...

• @ajdelgado13 A.J. Delgado on x

  lol, Boy Wonder dropped his whole “let's label NPR as government funded” campaign, of course. He backs down quite often, actually. https://twitter.com/...

• @mollyjongfast Molly Jong-Fast on x

  This seems really important https://twitter.com/...

• @daveleebbg Dave Lee on x

  Lost two major public broadcasters along the way. Great going https://twitter.com/...

• @willoremus Will Oremus on x

  So @NPR and @BBC's Twitter accounts no longer say “state-funded media”... and neither do @RT_com or @PDChina's https://twitter.com/...

• @brindusab1 @brindusab1 on x

  #Twitter #StateAffiliatedMedia Ongoing experiments ... good or bad, only time will tell ... Some might compare yesterday's #SpaceX 2nd stage blast to Twitter's management ... https://www.reuters.com/...

• @keithboykin Keith Boykin on x

  In a victory for NPR over Elon Musk, Twitter has dropped the “Government-funded Media” label from the National Public Radio account. @NPR recently stopped posting on Twitter, but it's unclear if the media outlet will return after Musk's new reversal. https://www.reuters.com/...

• @michaelcaster Michael Caster on x

  #Twitter removed “state-affiliated media” label from some accounts. The label is important to identify government influence on editorial content but labels have also been removed from #China state-affiliated media responsible for information manipulation. https://www.reuters.com/…

• @mattbinder Matt Binder on x

  before today Joe Biden's Twitter account was labeled “US government official” after the legacy verified blue checkmarks were removed...the labels gone too https://twitter.com/...

• @tommywalkerco Tommy Walker on x

  Legacy blue tickets removed. Also “China state affiliated media” tags also gone for angry propaganda hawks. Twitter becoming a circus, anyone can say anything with no accountability nor checks. Maybe great for content but ground zero for bullshit.

• @dynamicsymmetry Sunny Moraine on x

  Virtually no display of incompetence here could really surprise me anymore but this is hilarious https://twitter.com/...