Comment on Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible

• 30mag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I just said that:

  A whole host of things are state-afilliated. That shouldn’t be conflated with ran by the state, or operated by the state, or controlled by the state, which is probably the concern.
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  • ringwraithfish@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Twitter's definition of state-affiliated:

    How state-affiliated media accounts are defined

    State-affiliated media is defined as outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution. Accounts belonging to state-affiliated media entities, their editors-in-chief, and/or their prominent staff may be labeled. We will also add labels to posts that share links to state-affiliated media websites.

    Conspiracy theories aside, AFAIK there's no evidence that any level of the US government exercises control over NPR.

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    • 30mag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well, I can’t speak for twitter, the owner is an idiot.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s the problem for me. If they are receiving any state funding they need to report facts as unbiased as possible

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  • floppade@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because they’re a non-profit, their tax forms are publicly available. These forms are called 990s. This is why many people are responding as though they’re very annoyed with your perspective, because the evidence is free and public by law.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Exactly, I’m not making stuff up

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      • floppade@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The thing is you’re equivocating something potentially dangerous that you could easily look up instead.

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