Musk supports slapping ‘state-affiliated’ label on CBC
Mike Campbell
Twitter CEO Elon Musk says all media that receives government funding should be slapped with an affiliated warning label so readers can better calibrate the truth.
“You know how foreign media is labeled on Twitter often as Russian state controlled media,” one user asked Musk.
“Why don’t we do the same thing in the US — with all of these media organizations that are telling us to go to war, you know, why don’t we label them as well? Like ‘US government state media.’”
“I think that’s a good idea,” Musk responded during a live Q&A on Saturday.
Musk also said the rule should apply to the recently bankrupt FTX’s CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF).
“SBF gave so much money to different media organizations that — and then they just write these puff pieces, and it’s like, OK, we should be labelling that ‘SBF affiliated media’ because it is,” Musk said.
“So, if you’re going to write a puff piece about someone who gave you a ton of money, then the public should know that you maybe have a bias, so, yeah, I think it should be, if something is taking direction from the state, then that information should be made clear to the readers.”
Twitter users in Canada quickly note that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) would qualify for the pending “state-affiliated” label under the proposed parameters.