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RT and Sputnik news have it. But not "voice of america" https://mobile.twitter.com/VOANews/status/129330694903191142...

Really? That's pretty weird on Twitter's part, cause I know Youtube marks VOA as state media.

I think youtube marks anything government affiliated. It marks CBC as gov owned and its run at a fair distance from the gov. Maybe twitter is trying to only mark media that is state mouth pieces, then again VoA is literally founded for propaganda purposes.

https://twitter.com/XHNews

I've seen individual Chinese accounts without any publicly known state affiliation marked as well.

Media in states that are on the permanent UN Security Council, that aren't Britain, France and the USA.

Twitter claims their rule includes them, but if Voice of America doesn't count as "state-affiliated media" then what would?