Elon is poking the bear.

'Bloomberg ran an outraged story yesterday headlined, “PBS Joins NPR in Quitting Twitter Over State-Backed Label.”

NPR and PBS rage-quit Twitter yesterday after being accurately labeled as “Government-Funded.” Twitter owner Elon Musk seemed more amused than punished:
“PBS stopped tweeting from our account when we learned of the change and we have no plans to resume at this time,” PBS spokesman Jason Phelps said in an email. “We are continuing to monitor the ever-changing situation closely.”

“Guess they won’t mind losing federal funding in that case,” Twitter’s owner Musk said in a tweet. “Defund NPR,” the billionaire entrepreneur wrote in another.

I could get behind that. The most interesting thing about this story is that, by rage-quitting, NPR and PBS are implicitly admitting that taking government money creates an impression of bias. Imagine that. They just don’t like being called out for it.'