NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'

Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by riffic on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:04PM (#35542976)

with ActivityPub you can have specific actors like @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], et cetera.

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by VWWHFSfQ on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:12PM (#35543125)

for some reason I'm annoyed by all the @ symbols in these new things

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by nkcmr on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:17PM (#35543233)

Yah, the one thing that I like about bluesky is their name-spacing: “sports.npr.org”

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by soulofmischief on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:26PM (#35543385)

We are coming full circle back to Usenet.

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by riffic on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:16PM (#35543197)

it was annoying to me to type it too! There are also webfinger URLs that serve the same purpose like https://mastodon.social/@gargron == @[email protected]

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by paulej on Friday April 14, 2023 @01:10PM (#35571939)

That's not a WebFinger URL. WebFinger URLs point to /.well-known/ path that returns a JSON document with links to other places for the user. To simplify WebFinger use by a human, we introduced acct:[email protected] syntax. And (at least my) WebFinger clients can assume the acct: part, much like email clients do for the email: scheme.

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by Steltek on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:42PM (#35544681)

I like the Matrix format, "@user:domain.tld"

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by mcv on Thursday April 20, 2023 @01:45AM (#35636801)

I prefer the email format: [email protected]. There's no reason that can't be used for social media.

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by mavhc on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:37PM (#35543556)

what's the reason for the initial @ symbol, seems superfluous

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by snickerbockers on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:53PM (#35543837)

So it doesn't get mistaken for an email address.

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by mavhc on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:23PM (#35544383)

It's on Mastodon though, the automatic linking wouldn't add mailto: at the front, think it's worth the cost of a few people not being able to post their email address without a mailto:

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by evilduck on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:45PM (#35545670)

Referencing one of these username handles in external CMS systems (news sites, blogs, etc) might automatically convert them in Rich Text editors, or just Word processors, or even operating system toolings. Seems worth not re-using the same URI format.

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by connicpu on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:53PM (#35543838)

I would guess so that people don't confuse it with an email address

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by aendruk on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:54PM (#35543851)

It originated organically on Twitter as early users wrote “at” each other. Following that Twitter formally adopted it, and Mastodon imitated Twitter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mention_(blogging)#@_(at_sign)

Within Mastodon’s UI usernames are typically displayed as just e.g. @breaking, avoiding the visual noise of multiple at signs.

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by eastbound on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:09PM (#35543065)

Strange that labelling medias with their true funding diminishes their credibility so much that they’d flee to any place where this information is not disclosed.

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by travisd on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:12PM (#35543121)

I suspect this is a bad-faith argument, but just to be clear, NPR get's a tiny fraction of its funding from the government *and* maintains editorial independence.

> The news organization says that is inaccurate and misleading, given that NPR is a private, nonprofit company with editorial independence. It receives less than 1 percent of its $300 million annual budget from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by calvinmorrison on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:28PM (#35543422)

Being free of direct government funding does not make it free from editorial independence. You can listen and get an idea of their underwriting. They're clear to walk the line around a lot of topics to not upset their corporate and non profit overlords. We live in a corporatocracy and these companies and non profits are revolving doors for regulatory capture through lobbying and other methods.

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by iamerroragent on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:47PM (#35543713)

If you really want to delve into how, where, and whom makes the news I suggest start by looking at the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, and Reuters:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_agency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agence_France-Presse

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by BeetleB on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:47PM (#35543723)

> They're clear to walk the line around a lot of topics to not upset their corporate and non profit overlords.

That's true for virtually all news organization - public or private. NPR is not an outlier in this regard.

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by connicpu on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:55PM (#35543877)

A significant percentage of NPR member station funding is from individual donations, NPR is obviously also very conscious about producing the type of content its audience expects. No media outlet on planet earth is free from the influence of its audience.

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by ouid on Thursday April 13, 2023 @12:57PM (#35558457)

Editorial independence from government funding.

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by xdavidliu on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:13PM (#35543159)

what percentage of NPR’s true funding was from the government?

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by iamerroragent on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:40PM (#35543612)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPR#Funding

I'm seeing about ~10% from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) which if I'm reading correctly is itself primarily funded by Federal grants.

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by fundad on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:19PM (#35543264)

Yeah I'm sure it has nothing to do with months of the CEO putting out right wing agitprop and promoting QAnon conspiracies. He openly promoted GOP candidates on his media site.

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by thrashh on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:57PM (#35543914)

The problem isn’t that Twitter is labeling media with true funding. If it was, you’d be seeing under MSNBC or CNN or Fox News who their main sponsors are (which are probably bigger than NPR’s government contribution).

So by cherry picking only some funding sources to label with, that means that you are trying to present a narrative.

(or if Twitter is not trying to present a narrative, instead it means that they‘re just being naive)

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by guelo on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:07PM (#35545054)

The label was "State Affiliated" not "publicly funded".

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by khochesh_kushat on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:38PM (#35545556)

As long as Twitter lists itself as a Qatari/Saudi backed social media company I suppose fair is fair and at least they are being consistent in how they apply the rules. I wonder if they will do so.

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by corndoge on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:12PM (#35543132)

Not that rss really needs replacing - in fact using both is a great experience

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by h2odragon on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @01:19PM (#35543261)

> Twitter is just an information control mechanism for Musk, and journalists should quit

agreed. That was the case long before Musk.

Would you have felt comfortable articulating that opinion, two years ago? When anything but Twitter was "an extremist echo chamber"? When the only censorship they were indulging in was the censorship we still can't talk about?

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by preseinger on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:00PM (#35543984)

bro if twitter was "censoring" you in 2021 then you need to take a big step back and re-evaluate your situation

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by smoldesu on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:36PM (#35544595)

They're right, though. Somewhere between the "Matt Tabbi truther" and "Dorsey supremacist" mindset, we can all acknowledge that Twitter is not an unbiased news source. It's a bunch of people competing for attention in a sinkhole that rewards the worst contributors most consistently. Even as a liberal progressive, the caliber of extremist 140 character takes Twitter has promoted drives me crazy. It precludes meaningful discussion and forces interactions into the outskirts, which (as the parent is joking about) ironically happens less on federated platforms.

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by scythe on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @02:52PM (#35544843)

>Would you have felt comfortable articulating that opinion, two years ago?

I posted rather often about how awful Twitter was long before there was a whiff of Musk buying it. (It's still awful.) I didn't really talk about "information control", but I don't care about that now, either; Twitter's audience was never that big.

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by ModernMech on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:50PM (#35545741)

Twitter was also an extremist echo chamber. It's how the January 6th insurrection happened, a violent attack on the US Capitol that was organized, launched, and coordinated in real-time on Twitter. You can't do that if voices of sanity are seeping in. It's just that Twitter as many echo chambers, some bigger and more dangerous than others.

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by xnx on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @07:11PM (#35548357)

Email remains undefeated as the original, indestructible, federated social network. It's a shame about the flub with Google Buzz, that could've been the basis for something great.

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Re:NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliate... by timbit42 on Thursday April 13, 2023 @07:04PM (#35563360)

Too bad it's so centralized now.

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