Previously: NPR Whines About Being Hit with “State-Affiliated Media” Label on Twitter
Elon is doing some sort of wacky stuff, frankly.
Twitter chief Elon Musk has “threatened” to reassign National Public Radio’s Twitter account to another company, the U.S.-based broadcaster said on Tuesday.
Musk suggested that he would reassign the network’s main account, under the @NPR handle, to another organization or person, NPR said.
NPR stopped posting content to its 52 official Twitter feeds last month in protest against a Twitter designation that implied government involvement in its editorial content.
Musk, in an email to an NPR reporter, asked about its engagement with Twitter, the public broadcaster said.
“So is NPR going to start posting on Twitter again, or should we reassign @NPR to another company?” NPR quoted Musk as saying.
“Our policy is to recycle handles that are definitively dormant,” he said in another email. “Same policy applies to all accounts. No special treatment for NPR.”
I don’t care that he’s doing this.
But I don’t see what the goal or purpose of it might be.
NPR is on Bluesky now. Get fucked Elon. You’re watching this site crumble before your eyes. pic.twitter.com/6msTe45TNB
— Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) May 3, 2023