Elon Musk’s Twitter Wrongly Labels BBC Account “Government Funded” – Deadline

Elon Musk’s Twitter has wrongly labeled the BBC as being “government funded.”

The social media community made the change to the official @BBC account after stirring controversy by including the same tag to the NPR account in current days.

The BBC account has 2.2M followers. At the time of publication, the BBC’s information accounts on Twitter didn’t function the “government funded” tag.

The BBC isn’t funded by the UK authorities. It is funded by the British public, via a system generally known as the license price.

The authorities performs a job in setting the extent of the license price, however the price is collected by the businesses contracted by the BBC via the TV Licensing authority.

The BBC’s operations and editorial decision-making are totally impartial of the federal government.

Deadline contacted Twitter for remark. The firm’s press account routinely responded with a poop emoji. The BBC has been contacted for remark.