Twitter CEO Elon Muskclaimed in an interview that the U.S. government has “full access” to users’ private direct messages, saying knowing that information blew his mind.
NPR announcedlast week that it would let its Twitter accounts go dormant and no longer post on the social media platform in response to Twitter adding a “state-affiliated media” label to a number of media outlets that receive some public funding.
Twitter then dropped the “state-affiliated” label and changed it to say “government funded,” after receiving widespread pushback from the decision.
In a statement, White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre said that NPR is an independent news organization, saying “If anyone were to follow their coverage, it is clear that they are indeed an independent news organization.”
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I listen to NPR whenever in my car and love their programming.........it helps keep me tuned into the left/far left viewpoints as well as being extremely professional and giving listeners great human interest stories and sometimes objective science.
They are in the front row, leading the charge to push junk science regarding the fake climate crisis.
If we let that limit what sites we go to........then we would have to go to only sites that agree with everything that we believe in. Echo chambers define the problem in our country right now.
I also go to WUWT, which is much closer to authentic climate science than NPR, sometimes featuring profound articles making points that define objective science and the truth........but alot of REAL climate science deniars hang out there too. .......as you would expect.
It boils down to using discernment when knowing what to believe(fact checking) and what not to believe. Being an atmospheric science makes that easier but unfortunately, with regards to that topic, most people lack the expertise/education to scientifically vet the validity of the convincing sounding/reading information they receive.
Elon Musk is 100% right on this one about NPR, despite my low opinion about him and me being a regular NPR listener.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/94470/