Social media company makes change as the majority of its high-profile users also lose their verification check marks
“We are reviewing this latest development and will leave our Twitter accounts on pause before taking any next steps,” CBC spokesperson Leon Mar told The Globe and Mail on Friday.
Apart from media outlets and Twitter’s removal of its labels for them, a majority of Twitter’s high-profile users alsoon Thursday afternoon, as the platform began to remove them from celebrities, journalists, government bodies and others who would not pay for the company’s Twitter Blue subscription. This quickly began to cause havoc on the platform, with some users changing their account names to resemble politicians and other notable figures.
France Dernières Nouvelles, France Actualités
Similar News:Vous pouvez également lire des articles d'actualité similaires à celui-ci que nous avons collectés auprès d'autres sources d'information.
Twitter drops ‘government-funded’ label from CBC, NPR and BBC accountsSocial media company removes legacy verified blue tick from the profile of thousands of people, including celebrities
Lire la suite »
Elon Musk’s Twitter drops government-funded media labels, including CBC’sCBC’s government-funded label vanished Friday, along with the state-affiliated tags on media accounts including Sputnik and RT in Russia and Xinhua in China.
Lire la suite »
Twitter scraps 'government-funded media' tag on public broadcasters, including CBCTwitter removed the government\u002Dfunded media tag on public broadcasters after a task force called on it to correct its description. Read on.
Lire la suite »
Twitter scraps 'government-funded media' tag on public broadcasters, including CBCTwitter removed the government\u002Dfunded media tag on public broadcasters after a task force called on it to correct its description. Read on.
Lire la suite »
Twitter drops 'government-funded' labels for media outlets, including CBCAfter several false starts, Twitter began making good on its promise Thursday to remove the blue checks from accounts that don't pay a monthly fee to keep them. The checks began disappearing from these users' profiles late morning Pacific Time.
Lire la suite »
EDITORIAL: CBC isn’t ‘state-run’ but it is state-fundedElon Musk trolling the CBC by attaching a description of it as “69% Government\u002Dfunded Media” on its CBC Twitter account has liberal heads exploding across the country.
Lire la suite »