JUST IN: NPR announces they will be quitting Twitter after being labelled 'state-affiliated media'

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Hey people! So the media cancelling themselves!

National Public Radio (NPR) said on Wednesday it will no longer post fresh content to its 52 official Twitter feeds after the U.S. organization was labeled as "state-affiliated media" by the social media platform.

Source: Reuters.

"We are officially deemphasizing Twitter across the organization," NPR said in a statement, adding that it had made the decision after Twitter refused repeated requests to remove the "inaccurate label".

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