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."

@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.