The BBC has asserted that it’s funded by the British public after Twitter labelled one of its accounts as “government-funded media”. This comes amid a similar row between the social media company and America’s NPR.
Twitter owner Elon Musk has been accused of undermining news media on the social media platform. He earlier pulled down the New York Times’ verified status. He has also installed an automatic response of a poop emoji to emails sent to the site's media address.
