Wow I continue to be amazed at how each of Musk’s missteps somehow ends up getting worse when he inevitably walks it back. After the “Government funded” NPR kerfuffle now that whole class of labels is just gone for everyone. 🫠

Here’s RT

http://www.techmeme.com/230421/p3#a230421p3

Twitter dropped the “Government-funded” and “China state-affiliated” labels from accounts of media organizations and journalists, including NPR, BBC, and Xinhua

By Jahnavi Nidumolu / Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.

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@jonkeegan seemed like that might have been the strat the whole time.
I think these are smart people w malicious intentions.
One way to sow chaos is to show labels are artificial constructs then throw hands up and say, "guess we can't have them anymore". Way easier than doing the work to understand the problem.

They misidentified the problem to further their goals: labels v *incorrect* and *arbitrary" labels