Musk's Twitter tags US radio NPR as 'state-affiliated'

Twitter drew the anger of venerable US radio broadcaster NPR on Wednesday after the social media platform owned by Elon Musk tagged the news giant as a state-backed entity.

The designation of “state-affiliated media” for Washington-based National Public Radio — a label also applied to government-owned Chinese and Russian outlets — comes just days after Twitter stripped The New York Times of its verified status on the platform, the first sign of Musk’s updated policies for news media.