France Télevision Boss Decries Twitter’s Attempt To Label Media Orgs: “To See An American Billionaire Play With Our Independence Like This… Is Terrifying.”
deadline.comFrance Télévisions President Delphine Ernotte Cunci has entered the fray over Twitter’s bungled move to label public broadcasters as “government-funded”, warning that the incident has wider and longer-term implications for news and information. “Twitter tried to label all public media in the world as state media and then as government-funded media or public-funded media.
But who is Mr Musk to determine whether a media outlet is independent or not isn’t it?” she said in an interview with French financial broadsheet Les Echos over the weekend. “To see an American billionaire trying to play with our independence like this and define our public space is terrifying,” she added.
The Elon Musk-owned platform began labelling public broadcasters including NPR, PBS, the BBC, ABC, CBC and France Télévisions as “government-funded media” earlier this month.
It has since reversed the policy following protests from broadcasters worldwide that the label did not reflect their status or editorial independence, with some threatening to quit Twitter.
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