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Twitter brands BBC a ‘government funded media’ organization

15 pointsby turtlegridsabout 2 years ago

4 comments

Bostonianabout 2 years ago
It is funded by taxes, so the label is not misleading:<p>&#x27;Britain’s national broadcaster is predominantly funded by UK households via a license fee, which is also required to watch non-BBC channels or live services. This is supplemented by income from commercial operations.<p>The @BBC account – which has 2.2 million followers – is currently branded as government funded. The label has not been given to the BBC’s other accounts, including BBC News (World) and BBC Breaking News.<p>Twitter has not given a definition for what it considers “government funded media” to constitute.<p>In a statement provided to CNN, the BBC said: “We are speaking to Twitter to resolve this issue as soon as possible.<p>“The BBC is, and always has been, independent. We are funded by the British public through the licence fee.”&#x27;
ricardo81about 2 years ago
Not wrong. BBC are perhaps &#x27;least biased&#x27; in the general sense but can notably deviate from their good self on particular topics such as say, Scottish independence.<p>&#x2F;added perhaps using the wiki opening sentence for an entity may also add context, YouTube does this and perhaps other sites.
ReflectedImageabout 2 years ago
Well due to recent changes by the UK Conservative government, it pretty much is a government funded media organization.<p>Something about broken clocks being right twice a day and all that...
chinabotabout 2 years ago
As opposed to a Musk funded media organisation.
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