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Kristina Terech

Twitter’s identity crisis risks broadcaster exodus

Close up to finger deleting the Twitter app on the screen of an iPhone 7 Plus with personalized background.

Twitter - and Elon Musk - are having quite a couple of weeks. Recently, some of the bigger stories in the Twitter-Elon saga were that NPR , as well as KCRW (a member station of NPR from Santa Monica College), and the CBC (the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) were pausing their activity on Twitter or leaving altogether. 

NPR was the first to halt activity of its 52 feeds on the social media site after Twitter had designated it “state-affiliated media”. While NPR does state that its federal funding is essential, the “overwhelming majority of its funding comes from non-federal sources” 

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