PBS Follows NPR Off Elon Musk’s Twitter After Being Labeled “Government-Funded Media”

deadline.com:

PBS has joined NPR in closing down shop on Twitter after the Elon Musk-owned social media platform dubbed it “Government-funded Media,” slapping the tag to all its Tweets. “PBS stopped tweeting from our account when we learned of the change and we have no plans to resume at this time.

We are continuing to monitor the ever-changing situation closely,” a spokesperson for the Public Broadcasting System said in an emailed statement.

The policy doesn’t seem to apply to individual PBS shows or local stations although the PBS rep wasn’t immediately available to comment on that.

Yesterday, NPR said it will no longer post fresh content to its 52 official Twitter feeds after that news organization was labeled “Government-funded Media.” NPR had stopped tweeting from its main Twitter account a week ago.