(State) OWNED: CBC fuming after Twitter labels the broadcaster “government-funded”

https://thecountersignal.com/state-owned-cbc-fuming-after-twitter-labels-the-broadcaster-government-funded/

Twitter updated the CBC with a ‘Government-funded media’ tag on Sunday to inform readers of potential bias from the state-broadcaster.

Last week, Twitter slapped the BBC and NPR with government-funded media tags, prompting Canadians to ask CEO Elon Musk when the CBC’s account will get the same update.

And on Sunday night, that day finally came, as CBC’s main account has been updated with the tag.

Since NPR and the BBC were labelled by Twitter with the government-funded tag, the CBC had been preparing for the potential update