https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/12/npr-leaves-twitter-due-to-misleading-government-funded-media-label/

NPR will no longer update its 52 Twitter accounts, including the primary @NPR handle, which has nearly 9 million followers. These accounts include NPR’s topic-specific feeds like NPR Politics, as well as individual radio shows like Weekend Edition.

Last week, Twitter placed a “state-affiliated media” label on NPR’s account, representing the American news non-profit in the same way that it denotes RT, Russia’s state-backed mouthpiece that pushes the Kremlin’s talking points to the broader world. But the U.S. government does not have any sort of editorial control over NPR, and the news organization only received about 1% of its budget from federal funding in 2020. The label on NPR’s account was amended to “government-funded media,” yet NPR representatives have stated that this description is still misleading.