Twitter scraps 'government-funded media' tag on public broadcasters

Twitter removed the "government-funded media" tag on public broadcasters including the CBC Thursday without any explanation.

The move came after the Global Task Force for public media called on Twitter earlier in the day to correct its description of public broadcasters in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea.

The group chaired by CBC president Catherine Tait had said Twitter applied the label without warning to the accounts of CBC/Radio-Canada; the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, known as ABC; the Korean Broadcasting System, or KBS; and Radio New Zealand, or RNZ.

It noted that Twitter’s own policy defines government-funded media as those that may have varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content.