NPR quits Elon Musk’s Twitter over ‘government-funded’ label

The US-based National Public Radio (NPR) said Wednesday that it plans to stop maintaining the organisation’s Twitter accounts after Twitter’s decision to label its official account on the microblogging site as “government-funded media”.

With this NPR becomes the first major news media organisation to do so on the social media platform since its $44 billion acquisition by billionaire Elon Musk last October.