PBS follows NPR and leaves Twitter over ‘government-funded’ labels

Do you know PBS? The home of Elmo? You won't find those characters on Twitter anymore... at least from the official PBS accounts.

Earlier this week, NPR announced that it was leaving Twitter over the "government-funded" labels tagged on its accounts. At the time the company announced it was leaving, NPR CEO John Lansing said that “it would be a disservice to the serious work you all do here to continue to share it on a platform that is associating the federal charter for public media with an abandoning of editorial independence or standards.”

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