In early April, Twitter added a “State-Affiliated Media” tag to National Public Radio’s account on the social media platform, putting it in the same league as Russia’s RT, China’s Xinhua, and other government-funded “news” outlets. Within a few days, under withering criticism from, among others, NPR CEO Jack Lansing (who came to NPR after running More

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