Why does that distinction matter? Is there language in campaign finance law that says news orgs are exempt from certain restrictions?
This is a decent article on the subject: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=1804a02d-a015...
tl;dr: Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 states, "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."
The courts have upheld on multiple occasions (Pennie v. Twitter, Inc.; Fields v. Twitter, Inc.; Murphy v Twitter, Inc.) that Twitter is a provider of an interactive computer service.