Head of U.S. Government News Agency Rejects Twitter’s ‘Government-Funded’ Label

“…The head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, a news agency funded entirely by the United States government, claimed Thursday that it is “very misleading” for Twitter to designate the organization as “government-funded.”

Amanda Bennett, the CEO of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, rejected the label during a State Department briefing when asked about Twitter’s designation of Voice of America, a subsidiary of the agency, as “government-funded media.” Twitter added the label to several American outlets, including NPR, which is partially funded by the government.

“We completely reject the implications of the label ‘government-funded,’” said Bennett, according to a State Department transcript. “Of course we’re government-funded, but it’s potentially misleading.”…”