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From DD News to NPR: Leading news outlets no longer labelled ‘state-funded’ on Twitter

A day after deleting blue ticks from legacy accounts, Twitter dropped its labels from several news accounts that designate them as “government funded” or “publicly funded”.

For instance, BBC, RT and NPR no longer carry these labels on the social networking website. Xinhua News is also no longer designated as “China state-affiliate media”. BBC confirmed its label disappeared sometime today.

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