The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) announced it will temporarily cease its Twitter activities, following its labelling by the platform as “government-funded media.”
“Our journalism is impartial and independent. To suggest otherwise is untrue,” CBC said on Twitter on April 17. “That is why we are pausing our activities on Twitter.”
Twitter applied the labrel to the CBC on April 16. According to Twitter, the label is used in cases where “the government provides some or all of the outlet’s funding and may have varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content.”
The CBC, which received more than $1.2 billion in federal government funding in the 2021-22 fiscal year, said it rejects the labelling….