Conservatives ask Twitter to label CBC accounts as 'government-funded' media

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Conservatives ask Twitter to label CBC accounts as 'government-funded' media
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OTTAWA — The Opposition Conservatives are asking Twitter to apply a “government\u002Dfunded” label on accounts associated with the CBC, even as other broadcasters…

The office of Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez said the way the broadcaster’s public funding works, members of Parliament only vote on the sum of money it receives — they don’t guide its editorial decisions.

With the British broadcaster continuing to find fault with that phrasing, Twitter made yet another change on Wednesday to call the BBC “publicly funded.” FRIENDS, a public broadcasting advocacy group, said Poilievre seems to have zero qualms about comparing CBC to the likes of Russia’s Sputnik TV. NPR does receive U.S. government funding through grants from federal agencies and departments, along with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. But the company said that accounts for less than one per cent of NPR’s annual operating budget.

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