Twitter Reverses NPR Label, Tweaks to ‘Government Funded Media’

> In an email exchange with an NPR reporter on Wednesday, Musk appeared to be unaware of how much NPR receives in federal support. After being told support amounts to only 1% of the organization’s annual budget, the billionaire wrote: “Well, then we should fix it,” in an email to the reporter.

Of course he could've easily found this information for himself with a quick Google search, but then the decision to label NPR as "state media" was never about the facts and always about needling people he doesn't like.

If that's a useful signal, it'd be nice to see labels like

  * Independently Funded Media
  * Tiny Donations Funded Media
  * Funded by Usenet group a.b.c
  * Self-Funded Media

Each label is a tag, so clicking it brings you to a list of other suchly funded media.

The idea with "tiny donations" is like, you know each person donated $5 and no one can contribute more than that. So the agenda--or whatever this label idea is supposed to suggest or prime us into thinking--is... something, I don't know.