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ELON MUSK THREATENS TO REASSIGN NPR’S TWITTER ACCOUNT
By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPSyesterday
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FILE - The headquarters for National Public Radio (NPR) stands on North Capitol
Street on April 15, 2013, in Washington. 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 $44
billion acquisition of Twitter last year. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 $44 billion acquisition of Twitter
last year.
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“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 labeled 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.”
NPR said that both labels were inaccurate and undermined its credibility —
noting the nonprofit news company operates independently of the U.S. government.
Federal funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting accounts for less
than 1% of NPR’s annual operating budget, the company said.
The last tweets on NPR’s main account are from April 12 — when the news
organization shared a thread of other places readers and listeners can find its
journalism.
Twitter temporarily slapped other news organizations — including the BBC and PBS
— with “government-funded media” labels. PBS also stopped using its Twitter
account in response.
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TWITTER RELAXES POT AD RULES TO LURE IN MORE ADVERTISERS
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In an article written by Allyn late Tuesday, the NPR tech reporter detailed the
messages that the billionaire owner of Twitter sent regarding NPR’s account.
Musk pointed to NPR’s choice to stop tweeting as justifying possibly reassigning
the account.
“Our policy is to recycle handles that are definitively dormant,” Musk wrote in
one email. “Same policy applies to all accounts. No special treatment for NPR.”
According to Twitter’s online policy, the social media platform determines an
account’s inactivity based on logging on — not tweeting. Twitter says that users
should log in at least every 30 days to keep their accounts active, and that
“accounts may be permanently removed due to prolonged inactivity.”
Musk’s comments and his actions, however, do not always match and it is
uncertain if he will actually reassign NPR’s handle, regardless of Twitter’s
published policy on account activity.
When asked by NPR who would be willing to use NPR’s Twitter account, Musk
replied, “National Pumpkin Radio,” along with a fire emoji and a laughing emoji,
NPR reported.
It is unknown if NPR has logged into its account, which currently has a blue
check without the previous “government-funded media” label, since April. The
Associated Press reached out to NPR for comment early Wednesday.
Musk disbanded Twitter’s media and public relations department after the
takeover.
As of Wednesday, the NPR Twitter handle still appeared to belong to NPR. If Musk
does reassign the account to another user, experts warn of misinformation and
further loss of credibility.
“Potentially losing access to a handle as a form of pressure is really just a
continuation of eroding the credibility of information sharing on Twitter,” Zeve
Sanderson, executive director of New York University’s Center for Social Media
and Politics told The Associated Press.
“For journalism, there’s not only brand safety concerns, but in addition to
that, there are a ton of concerns around misinformation potentially being
perceived as a lot more credible — because someone (could be) tweeting from from
the NPR handle when it’s really not them,” Sanderson added.
It is the latest volley in what many experts describe as a chilling and
uncertain landscape for journalism on Twitter since Musk acquired the company in
October.
In addition to removing news organization’s verifications and temporarily adding
labels like “government-funded media” on some accounts, Musk abruptly suspended
the accounts of individual journalists who wrote about Twitter late last year.
In response to Musk’s Tuesday emails, Liz Woolery, digital policy lead at
literary organization PEN America said that it is “hard to imagine a more potent
example of Musk’s willingness to use Twitter to arbitrarily intimidate and
retaliate against any person or organization that irks him, with or without
provocation.”
“It’s a purely authoritarian tactic, seemingly intended to undermine one of the
country’s premier and most trusted news organizations—one that is especially
important to rural communities across the U.S.” Woolery added in a Wednesday
statement to The Associated Press.
_______
AP Technology Writers Matt O’Brien and Barbara Ortutay contributed to this
report.
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