Like "fact checking", it's to discredit sources that their editorial staff disagrees with while promoting the sources that they do agree with. You don't have to entertain arguments with sources you disagree with if you've preemptively stated that they're untrustworthy.

You know probably no one understands the purpose of the label.

The reporting about the purpose of the label from yesterday where the reporter actually talked to the former executives involved with setting it up before they quit Twitter, was pretty clear. The tweet content was influenced by state.

Now the purpose of the label is meaningless. It's arbitrary. If Elon Musk can be convinced to change it for an NPR by an arbitrary reporter, as he apparently is being today, that NPR should not be labeled in the way that it is, then the significance of the label is thoroughly suspect.

yes, it's like one of those irregular verbs. I am a public broadcaster, you are state-run media, he is a mouthpiece for enemy propaganda.

To delegitimize media organizations the US State Department doesn’t like?