Elon Musk threatens to reassign NPR’s Twitter account to another firm

Elon Musk threatened to reassign NPR’s Twitter account to another company, according to the non-profit news organization, in an ongoing spat between Musk and media groups since his USD 44 billion acquisition of Twitter last year.

So is NPR going to start posting on Twitter again, or should we reassign @NPR to another company? Musk wrote in one email late Tuesday to NPR reporter Bobby Allyn.

NPR stopped tweeting from its main account after Twitter abruptly labelled NPR’s main account as state-affiliated media last month, a term that’s also been used to identify outlets controlled or heavily influenced by authoritarian governments. Twitter then changed the label to government-funded media.