American Public Media Group has also announced that they are suspending the use of Twitter in an e-mail to current/previous donors

"After much discussion, we concluded that continued use of the social media platform Twitter by our organization was contrary to our mission and core values. Instead of being a neutral and efficient channel for serving the public, Twitter is now actively aiming to undermine the integrity of public media organizations like ours.

All of American Public Media Group’s channels will cease to post and engage on the Twitter platform at this time. The decision will be effective immediately, but we expect winding down use of the platform will take several weeks, primarily due to some of our contractual obligations.

The decision to leave Twitter was neither simple nor easy. It was instead the product of much discussion. In deciding to label public media organizations as “state affiliated,” then “government funded,” then “publicly funded” over a week period, Twitter inaccurately describes what public media is and does. That inaccuracy undermines the value of what our employees do for people and their families: providing accurate, unbiased journalism and information about our country and the world."

If you would like to contact American Public Media Group to nudge them to join the Fediverse, you can use this contact form:
https://cloud.connect.mpr.org/contact

FYI: APM Group is the parent of American Public Media and MPR, Minnesota Public Radio; which, is why you see MPR listed for the contact form.

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@qlp smart move! I'll invite them to Mast!
@qlp Source please? I cannot find this story.

@shoq I got it as an e-mail that was sent out as I am currently a monthly donor to a podcast that is distributed through American Public Media.

I've been trying to find if they have published a press release on it.

@qlp That's too bad. I hope they go more public soon. It's a big story.
@shoq Agreed. The timing makes it almost feel like a Friday night news dump, though.
@shoq Here is the full e-mail (redacting a family member's name and mail server)
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@qlp @shoq Keeping an eye on www.americanpublicmedia.org/bl… to see if anything shows up there.
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Good on them the more people who get rid of there Twitter the faster the fediverse will grow

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Others should follow suit.

@qlp NPR has accounts on mastodon but doesn’t appear to use them …
@maryeffrancis There are a lot of bot accounts that forward their tweets onto the Fediverse. While there are some journalists on, but they don't have any official news accounts here.
@qlp Let's hope it is the first of many to leave the hell site.

@qlp they're a bourgeois institution, showing off how rich their listeners are and touting their stenography of media organs of billionaires like the NYT and WaPo, two of the biggest enablers of the US war machine.

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@qlp do you know if they have a presence on mastodon for us to follow
@bminish There are a few journalists that are on Mastodon but no official accounts. There are a lot of bot accounts that mirror content on to the Fediverse as a means of not having to go to Twitter.

@qlp
Just like NPR, American Public Media Group should spin up a Mastodon instance where their programs can publicly communicate in the fediverse without interference from the policies of an external platform.

We need to build up more value in the federated social media ecosystem so it becomes a truly viable alternative to centralized platforms such as Twitter for people generally.

@davidmiller I have used the contact link in that email to suggest that. I don't expect smaller stations to be able to do that; but, they are large enough to have the necessary staff to set up and maintain one.
@qlp exactly, the larger orgs are the ones with the resources to maintain an instance and doing so sets an example that it's worth delivering content to the fediverse.
@qlp the musk rat driving legitimate organizations away. Silently inviting the scums of society like neo nazis & trumpism
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There is no ROI in paying for a Twitter account.

@qlp How will Twitter die?

Slowly, then all at once.

@qlp Does twitter label media outlets owned by mega corporations with pejorative labels to make people disrespect them? Fox News operates on Twitter "unlabelled", what's up with that?