Sweden’s public radio said Tuesday it would stop being active on Twitter, but did not blame the new label Elon Musk’s social media platform has slapped on public broadcasters, prompting some major North American outlets to tweet has stopped.
Sveriges Radio said on its blog that Twitter has lost its relevance to Swedish audiences. Meanwhile, National Public Radio and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation have pointed to Twitter’s new policy of labeling them as government-funded institutions, saying it undermines their credibility.
Christian Gillinger said, “For a long time, Sveriges Radio has deprioritized its presence on Twitter and has now decided to become fully active on the platform, at the same time we are closing a number of accounts.” Head of the broadcaster’s social media activities.
He cited a recent study that showed only 7% of Swedes are on Twitter and said the platform “has just changed over the years and become less important to us.”
“Viewers have simply chosen other places to be. And so Sveriges Radio now chooses to deactivate or delete the last remaining accounts,” Gillinger said.
The broadcaster’s news service, SR Ekot, which has been labeled a “publicly funded media”, will remain on Twitter but has been marked inactive.
Sveriges Radio, which has been active on Twitter since 2009, also noted the “recent turbulence” around Twitter’s operations and said it is worrying that the social media platform has “dramatically” reduced its workforce.
“We believe this could affect the company’s ability in the long run to contain, for example, fake accounts, bots and misinformation but also hate messages and threats,” Gillinger said.
The label for public broadcasters has sparked a new battle between journalists and Musk, who has long expressed disdain for professional journalists and said he wants to elevate the views and expertise of the “average citizen”.
Canada’s CBC said on Monday it would halt its activities on Twitter after being labeled as “government-funded” because it undermines the “accuracy and professionalism of the work of journalists” and “throws our freedom on this”. allows the kind to be misrepresented.”
US broadcasters NPR and the Public Broadcasting Service made similar decisions earlier this month for related reasons.
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