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Twitter failed to flag US state-sponsored media like NPR, so not doing this to eg China seems only fair.

The flag isn't about who is state sponsored, it's about who is controlled by the state. The Guardian for example is also not a mouthpiece of the state. NPR is certainly at that level.

Seemingly no one agreed with your callous narrow interpretation in the recent threads on NPR being labeled as state-affiliated. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35457578

The current NPR CEO used to lead US government propaganda agency, https://www.usagm.gov/who-we-are/management-team/john-lansin.... But yeah, go ahead, maintain they are not controlled by the state xD

I maintain they are not controlled by the state.

He's not some super mastermind. NPR allows their journalists pretty free reign. Having petty little point scoring things to be deliberately mean over doesn't convince me. I don't mistake it as actual evidence of anything.

Npr is almost totally funded by "viewers/listeners like you" and also corporate/nonprofit underwriting (ever notice those ads in NPR?). Very little goes directly into NPR from the state, though some individual shows that NPR carries get grants from the CPB, which is state money.

>Very little goes directly into NPR from the state

Yeah, just the management xD

Voice of America is probably a more apt org to compare to than NPR

I enjoyed the drama when NPR was flagged as state media for a couple hours.

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