Twitter scraps ‘government-funded media’ tag on public broadcasters

Hard for me to find a charitable interpretation.<p>Twitter had a longstanding feature to help identify government mouthpieces that was working fine.<p>Musk either under pressure from those powers or just to score own-the-lob points started adding the tag to loved cherished public institutions like NPR and The Guardian, which have longstanding &amp; sifndicisnt editorial freedom protections &amp; don&#x27;t make sense for this label.<p>Rather than do the right thing, Musk just cancels the safeguard entirely. Takes his ball &amp; bat, tells everyone to go home.

You know, it&#x27;s probably not that difficult for them to actually ask some of the organisations&#x2F;people that will be affected by big changes how they would feel about it before they implement them.<p>Ideally you&#x27;d want to validate that the features you&#x27;re implementing are features that people (or organisations) are going to like. Right? Is that crazy?

At this point, Musk is like someone who keeps getting up from the dinner table, stabbing a guest, and then trying to take it back once he realizes they&#x27;re leaving.<p>Eventually there either won&#x27;t be any guests left or no one will want to eat dinner with him because they heard about what happened last time.