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But he spoke the truth

In the BBC's case, he's acknowledge it's not accurate. NPR's case is similar (and even less "state affiliated" than they are).

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65248196

> Mr Musk said Twitter was adjusting the label for the BBC to "publicly-funded". "We're trying to be accurate," he said.

If NPR is state affiliated because of 1% government funding, SpaceX should get the tag.

Including Elon's SpaceX spam tweets.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting is entirely government funded, and it funds NPR.

CPB indirectly funds NPR. Direct funding from CPB is ~1%, the rest comes from member dues of local broadcast stations that get their own funding. NPR doesn't control where the member stations get their funding from, and the US Gov't doesn't have editorial control over NPR.

Heck, Twitter itself used to make the distinction between state-funded without editorial control and state-affiliated (where the state has editorial control) on their own Help Center [1].

They removed the distinction on 2023-04-07 [2], two days after it slapped the state-affiliated label on NPR. That distinction had been in place for over two years

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20230404115255/https:/help.twitt...

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20230407155944/https://help.twit...

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