Elon Musk, who has increased his actions towards broadcasting organizations on Twitter in recent weeks, has started to add special tags to government-supported publishers. The aforementioned accounts began to be labeled “Government-funded Media”.
This label has been bothering broadcasters since the first day it was used. But very interesting events took place in CBC, the last name involved in this fight. Labeled as “70% Government Funded Media” in the first place, the Canada-based organization’s label saw a ‘small’ change after its appeal.
Elon Musk changed the label as follows after CBC’s statement that “we are less than 70% funded”:
Following these events, CBC ceased its activities on Twitter:
“Our journalism is impartial and independent. It is not correct to say otherwise. For this reason, we are suspending our activities on Twitter.
CBC/Radio-Canada is publicly funded through a parliamentary grant voted on by all Members of Parliament. As we stated in our statement last week, editorial independence is protected by law through the Broadcasting Act.”
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau defended CBC:
While it was said that CBC received large funds from the state, a statement came from Justin Tradeau regarding the movements on Twitter. Tradeau attributed the reasoning of the move to Pierre Poilievre, the President of the Conservative Party of Canada, his biggest rival in the elections, and accused him of running at Elon Musk’s feet:
Along with the CBC, broadcasters labeled as “State-Funded Media” on Twitter include names such as ABC, NPR and PBS.
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