After purchasing Twitter, one of the world’s largest social media platforms, Elon Musk, who transformed the platform’s transparency principles into a commercial model, decided to remove the “media affiliated with the XYZ state” label.
On the Twitter profiles of government or government-affiliated media organizations and in every post they make. “Media affiliated with the XYZ state” or “government-affiliated media organization” tags removed by Elon Musk.
This tag, which is used in important accounts such as TRT Haber and A Haber in Turkey, will no longer be used. Similarly, no government-state-linked profiles such as the BBC, the official agency of the United Kingdom, Sputnik and RT, which is affiliated with the Russian state, and CBS, which is funded by the US government, are different from the others. it will not be possible to distinguish.
The age of state-government-sponsored disinformation will begin again:
This standard was introduced by the Twitter management before Musk so that users could very clearly understand the nature of the posts made through state or government-affiliated media outlets. In this way, users can a country’s actions to have an impact on its own society or the societies of different countries. they could see the news and content very clearly.
However, Elon Musk managementunder the umbrella of Twitter Blue used the social media trust mechanism that it commercialized for this label as well. Important media companies such as the BBC, CBS and NPR, some of which are state or government-supported and some are private organizations, did not purchase Twitter Blue subscriptions or stopped using the platform. This has resulted in a drastic drop in the interactions created by the big media companies on Twitter. Musk’s decision to remove government-sponsored account tags followed this fall.
CBS, which is supported by the US government and states that this support rate is at most 70%; recently by Elon Musk “69% government-supported media organization” was tagged. After this very rude intervention, media companies reacted by reminding Musk’s emphasis on “freedom of expression”.