Elon Emails

To NPR: 'fair and equal treatment' for media labels

From:
Elon Musk
Date:
April 5, 2023 (Sent April 5-6, 2023; NPR does not give the exact day)
To:
Bobby Allyn (NPR technology reporter)

Partial text. Only these passages were published; [...] marks a gap.

The operating principle at new Twitter is simply fair and equal treatment, so if we label non-US accounts as govt, then we should do the same for US, but it sounds like that might not be accurate here

About this email

Musk explains that new Twitter's operating principle is fair and equal treatment, so US outlets should be labeled like non-US government media, while conceding the label might not be accurate for NPR.

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Twitter/X, press & journalists. Tags: npr, media-labels, state-affiliated, press