Public broadcaster CBC should be labelled as “government-funded media” on Twitter, Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre told the social media company in a letter.
Poilievre wrote to Twitter on April 11 saying that CBC should receive a label based on its practice of identifying accounts of this type.
In recent days, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and the U.S. National Public Radio (NPR) received the label.
Poilievre quoted the definition used by Twitter to make decisions on accounts.
“Government-funded media is defined as outlets where the government provides some or all of the outlet’s funding and may have varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content,” says the Twitter policy….