End Of An Era: Twitter Drops All Govt-Funded Media Labels

It's the end of an era and the beginning of another for users of Twitter as on Thursday into Friday the Elon Musk-owned platform has dropped its government-funded and state-affiliated media labels.

Entities associated with China and Russia, for years accustomed to having the govt-funded labels displayed prominently on their Twitter profiles, saw the label suddenly disappear at a moment the Elon Musk-owned platform also stripped legacy blue check verification marks from any account not paying the monthly fee of $8. 

Above: govt-funded labels and blue check marks disappeared at the same time.

US state-funded National Public Radio (NPR) also saw it's label dropped, interestingly just after announcing last week it planned to abandoned Twitter due to its main account being designated as state-affiliated. NPR claimed that it was misleading, despite it long being clear that it absolutely does receive federal funding. 

Hilariously, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) also groaned and griped after being slapped with a tongue-in-cheek "69% Government-funded Media" label...