Twitter Slaps NPR With a Dubious New Tag, State Affiliated Media, and Everybody's Fucking Pissed

Twitter slaps NPR with a dubious new tag, state affiliated media. The label implies that the Washington based nonprofit news organization is somehow connected to if not controlled by the federal government. It puts NPR in the same category as propaganda outlets like the Russian government on RT and the Chinese Communist Party's people's daily newspaper,. Both are also quote state affiliated media, according to Twitter.