Twitter stops labeling Russia’s RT and China’s Xinhua as “state-affiliated media”

Twitter stops labeling Russia’s RT and China’s Xinhua as “state-affiliated media”

a year ago
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/twitter-stops-labeling-russias-rt-and-chinas-xinhua-as-state-affiliated-media/

Twitter has removed "government-funded" and "state-affiliated" labels from media accounts, including those of public broadcasters in the US and the accounts of state-controlled news organizations in China and Russia. The RT and Xinhua Twitter accounts were previously labeled "Russia state-affiliated media" and "China state-affiliated media," but those labels disappeared sometime yesterday or today.

RT describes itself on its Twitter profile as promoting "freedom over censorship, truth over narrative," and the profile now has no indication that it's controlled by the Russian government. China's Xinhua state news agency, also now unlabeled by Twitter, calls itself "public media for the public good" that doesn't "yield to the pressure of ideological stigmatization and political bias."