Twitter to label Russian and other state-run media accounts as foreign controlled

Twitter will label the accounts of state-controlled media entities, as well as their senior staff and government officials, said the company in a blog post Thursday.

There are no U.S. media outlets on the list.

Russia was not happy about the move to limit disinformation from Moscow.

Tweeted Russias deputy U.N. Ambassador Dmitry Polyanskiy, They think they can set the rules of the game! This is an illusion. Such clear double standards backfire and undermine credibility of Western media, with state-affiliate labels or without. People cant find truth and facts there anymore.

From Reuters:

The accounts of Russias Sputnik, RT, and Chinas Xinhua News are among the media organizations that will be labeled, according to a Twitter spokesman. He declined to provide a full list of entities.

We believe that people have the right to know when a media account is affiliated directly or indirectly with a state actor, Twitter said in its blog. It will also stop amplifying these accounts or their tweets through its recommendation systems.

The social media company defined state-affiliated media as those where the state exercises editorial control through financial resources or political pressure, or control over production and distribution.

Read more at Reuters:Twitter labels state media, government officials' accounts Read the rest