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<\/a><\/p>\n(Reuters) – Public broadcaster Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) on Tuesday pushed back against Twitter’s move to label it “69% government funded media,” saying it had complete editorial independence.<\/p>\n
The Elon Musk-owned social media platform had on Sunday stamped CBC with a label that said it was government-funded media, after placing similar notices for U.S. broadcasters NPR and PBS. <\/p>\n
“Canadian Broadcasting Corp said they’re ‘less than 70% government-funded’, so we corrected the label,” Musk said in a tweet on Monday.<\/p>\n
In an emailed statement, a CBC spokesperson said that Twitter’s response was not “serious.”<\/p>\n
“The real issue is that Twitter’s definition of government-funded media means open to editorial interference by government. As the Editor-in-Chief of CBC News has said the government has no \u2014 zero \u2014 involvement in our editorial content or journalism,” the statement quoted Editor-in-Chief Brodie Fenlon as saying.<\/p>\n
CBC received C$1.24 billion ($925.86 million)in government funding in the 2022 financial year, compared with revenue from advertising, subscriptions and other sources of C$651.4 million according to its annual report.<\/p>\n
Twitter defines its “government-funded media” label as “where the government provides some or all of the outlet’s funding and may have varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content”.<\/p>\n
Twitter did not immediately respond to Reuters’ request for comment on CBC’s response.<\/p>\n
CBC has paused its Twitter activities over the labeling, a spat that has also drawn in Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Conservative rival Pierre Poilievre.<\/p>\n
($1 = 1.3390 Canadian dollars)<\/p>\n
(This story has been corrected to fix the government funding and revenue figures in paragraph 6)<\/p>\n
\n(Reporting by Akanksha Khushi and Lavanya Ahire in Bengaluru; Editing by Sandra Maler)<\/p>\n
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