The RTVE Corporation has transmitted to Twitter its “total disagreement” with the unilateral decision of the social network to include the label medium financed by the Government in the corporate accounts of the Corporation: RTVE, RTVE News, RTVE Communication and Participation and RTVE Play.
These labels on the RTVE accounts on Twitter “are wrong and contrary to the essence of Radiotelevisión Española,” the public entity said in a statement, after the social network established said label in the last few hours. The Corporation reiterates “editorial independence” as one of its “signs of identity.”
According to Twitter’s explanation of who this label is established for, the social network ensures that “state-affiliated media are defined as media where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressure, or control over production and distribution. Thus, it continues, “you can label the accounts that belong to state-affiliated media entities, their editors-in-chief and their higher-level staff.”
“RTVE is a public medium that is financed through an allocation from the general budgets approved by parliament, he continues, and adds, “as well as by two other sources of private financing.”
The Public Corporation states that “the editorial independence and that of the workers of RTVE” by the Government or any body or representative of the Public Administration “is protected by Law 17/2006, of June 5, on radio and state-owned television.
Twitter explains that “government-funded media are defined as media outlets that are partially or fully funded by the government and that exhibit varying degrees of government involvement with regards to editorial content.”
For this reason, the RTVE Corporation has asked Twitter to withdraw the label medium financed by the Government and, where appropriate, to replace it with a publicly financed medium. “We hope that this request is attended to as soon as possible,” concludes the public entity.
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