CBC Announces Pause on Twitter Activity Following ‘Government-Funded Media’ Label

People walk into the CBC building in Toronto on April 4, 2012. The Canadian Press/Nathan Denette

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) announced it will temporarily cease its Twitter activities, following its labelling by the platform as “government-funded media.”

“Our journalism is impartial and independent. To suggest otherwise is untrue,” CBC said on Twitter on April 17. “That is why we are pausing our activities on Twitter.”