U.S. broadcaster NPR to stop using Twitter for misleading public
US radio broadcaster NPR on Wednesday said it was quitting Twitter, in the first significant defection by a major news outlet since Elon Musk's tumultuous takeover of the platform.
National Public Radio has decided to stop using Twitter.
NPR said on Wednesday Twitter refused its repeated requests to remove the inaccurate label of "state-affiliated media", now changed to "government-funded media."
It said: "We are not putting our journalism on platforms that have demonstrated an interest in undermining our credibility..."
The outlet encouraged people to instead subscribe to its newsletters and follow NPR on other social media.
The BBC, the national broadcaster of the UK, has also been at loggerheads with Twitter over its own labelling.
It objected when Twitter described it as "government-funded media" which has now been changed to "publicly funded media."
Twitter has been marked by chaos and uncertainty since Elon Musk's $44 billion buyout last year...
...Musk, however, says the company is 'roughly breaking even',
Many advertisers have paused spending on the platform since the takeover.