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A deadly wildfire raged through the Hawaiian town of Lahaina, killing at least 111 people, last week. Aerial view shows destroyed homes and buildings near Front Street in Lahaina Town on August 10, 2023. Colonialism: Plantations brought the perfect wildfire fuel, an invasive grassLahaina was once the capital of the indigenous Hawaiian kingdom. Smoke and flames rise in Lahaina, Maui County, Hawaii, U.S., August 8, 2023 in this still image from video obtained from social media. A Mercy Worldwide volunteer makes damage assessment of charred apartment complex in the aftermath of a wildfire in Lahaina, western Maui, Hawaii on August 12, 2023.
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April 18 (Reuters) - Public broadcasters ranging from U.S.-based National Public Radio to Canadian Broadcasting Corp have stopped posting on Twitter in recent days after the Elon Musk-owned social media platform labeled their accounts as "government-funded". ** Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)CBC said on Monday it would pause its use of Twitter after the platform labeled it as "69% government-funded media". The Twitter label on the CBC account previously showed "70% government-funded media", but was changed to the current one after the CBC asked Twitter to re-examine the designation. ** Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)PBS, which has around 2.2 million followers on Twitter, halted publishing on Twitter after it was labeled as "government-funded media", according to media reports. ** Hawaii Public RadioHawaii Public Radio, a member station of NPR, said it would stop sharing its content on Twitter after the micro-blogging site labeled NPR's Twitter handle as "government-funded media".
NPR and PBS stopped tweeting from their accounts after Twitter labeled them as "government-funded." Twitter on Sunday added the label to some media accounts, including NPR and the BBC. Following an interview with a BBC reporter on Tuesday, Musk changed the label on the BBC's Twitter account to "publicly funded media" instead of "government-funded." NPRNPR's "government-funded" label remains. PBSPublic Broadcasting Service, a US broadcaster, told Axios it stopped sharing posts from its Twitter account after the "government-funded media" label was added to its account over the weekend.
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