"If you really think that the government has no influence on the entity they're funding then you've been marinating in the Kool-Aid for too long," Musk wrote to Allyn.

:heartbreaking:

A former Twitter executive who was involved in crafting the guidelines told NPR that the deciding factor in whether to issue the designation was whether an outlet had editorial freedom. The labels, the former executive said, were intended to give users context that a tweet they are seeing may be propaganda.

Also, I'm sorry then how did The New York Times never get this designation? How many provable examples are needed of the State dept asking editors to suppress a story that makes them look bad, in the interest of national security. It's obviously just picking and choosing publications/govts they like from ones they don't so I don't even know why I'm asking