Elon Musk threatened to reassign NPR's Twitter handle to another entity if it didn't start tweeting again,NPR reported that Musk sent an out-of-the-blue email on Tuesday to reporter Bobby Allyn, which asked:"So is NPR going to start posting on Twitter again, or should we reassign @NPR to another company?"
In a further email, Musk reportedly wrote:"Our policy is to recycle handles that are definitively dormant. Same policy applies to all accounts. No special treatment for NPR." that it would no longer tweet from its 52 official Twitter accounts, citing Musk's decision to label the outlet as"state-affiliated media," a move that left it aligned with state-controlled media such as China's Xinhua News Agency.said the label was still"inaccurate and misleading" as the organization is private, nonprofit, and has editorial independence.
The feud escalated when Musk responded to NPR's decision to leave the platform with a series of jokes and insults, including