Musks Twitter tags US radio NPR as stateaffiliated

WASHINGTON – Twitter drew the anger of venerable US radio broadcaster NPR on Wednesday after the social media platform owned by Elon Musk tagged the news giant as a state-backed entity. The designation of “state-affiliated media” for Washington-based National Public Radio — a label also applied to government-owned Chinese and Russian outlets — comes just days after Twitter stripped The New York Times of its verified status on the platform, the first sign of Musk’s updated policies for news media. Both US news organizations are often considered by conservatives as bastions of a left-leaning media establishment, a position often echoed…