Twitter chief Elon Musk has “threatened” to reassign National Public Radio‘s Twitter account to a different firm, the U.S.-based broadcaster mentioned on Tuesday.
Musk instructed that he would reassign the community’s most important account, below the @NPR deal with, to a different group or individual, NPR mentioned.
NPR stopped posting content material to its 52 official Twitter feeds final month in protest in opposition to a Twitter designation that implied authorities involvement in its editorial content material.
Musk, in an e-mail to an NPR reporter, requested about its engagement with Twitter, the general public broadcaster mentioned.
“So is NPR going to start posting on Twitter again, or should we reassign @NPR to another company?” NPR quoted Musk as saying.
“Our policy is to recycle handles that are definitively dormant,” he mentioned in one other e-mail. “Same policy applies to all accounts. No special treatment for NPR.”
NPR and Twitter didn’t instantly reply to a request from Reuters for remark.
According to Twitter’s coverage, customers ought to log in to their account at the very least as soon as each 30 days to keep away from everlasting removing as a consequence of extended inactivity.
PBS and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation adopted NPR and stopped posting on Twitter following related labeling.
Twitter later dropped the labels however the shops that have been focused haven’t resumed exercise, their profiles confirmed on Tuesday.
Source: www.anews.com.tr
