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The Yukon is set to become the first jurisdiction in Canada to offer government-funded paid sick leave for workers and people who are self-employed.Premier Ranj Pillai made the announcement on Tuesday. The two-year rebate program replaces a…

Twitter dropped the "Government-funded" and "China state-affiliated" labels, which implies government involvement in editorial content, from the accounts of various global media organizations, their profiles showed on Friday.Twitter dropped…

Twitter has removed labels that described prominent news organizations as “government-funded” or “state-affiliated” after NPR and public broadcasters in several countries criticized the labels as misleading and suspended the use of their…

The Twitter splash page is seen on a digital device, on April 25, 2022, in San Diego. After several false starts, Twitter began making good on its promise Thursday,…

Twitter removed the "government-funded media" tag on public broadcasters, including the CBC, on Thursday without any explanation.The move came after the Global Task Force for Public Media called on Twitter earlier in the day to correct its…

Public broadcaster Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) on Tuesday (Apr 18) pushed back against Twitter's move to label it "69 per cent government funded media," saying it had complete editorial independence. The Elon Musk-owned social…

Twitteris putting 'government-funded media' labels on more news outlets globally. After tagging US-based media outlet NPR and the UK’s BBC last week, the Elon Musk-owned company is now labelling Twitter handles of global news outlets.These…

Last Updated: April 18, 2023, 01:33 ISTGovernment-funded media is defined as outlets where the government provides some or all of the outlet's funding and may have varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content, according…

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) has stopped tweeting from its primary Twitter account after it was given a “Government-funded Media” label. As of this writing the @PBS account hasn’t tweeted since April 8th, and the organization has…

US radio broadcaster NPR on Wednesday said it was quitting Twitter, in the first significant defection by a major news outlet since Elon Musk's tumultuous takeover of the platform.The exit caps a week-long row over Twitter's decision to…