Elon Musk's exquisite parody of impartiality?

Twitter's new no-tag policy scrupulously takes the same view of both Xinhua and BBC

What was the point in Twitter removing the labels that described major media outlets’ funding models or affiliations? On April 21, tags that described China's official Xinhua news agency or Russia’s RT were removed. So was the BBC’s controversial label “government-funded”.

Is Elon Musk’s Twitter trying to be so even-handed the exercise becomes is meaningless?

Is this supposed to be an exquisite parody of impartiality?

Until recently, Twitter’s guidelines said, “State-financed media organizations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK or NPR in the US for example, are not defined as state-affiliated media for the purposes of this policy.” That language has been removed.

Now, Twitter's new no-tag policy scrupulously takes the same view of both Xinhua and BBC. And even though Mr Musk has said he is a “free speech absolutist”, he has metaphorically raised his hands in surrender when faced with complaints about Twitter’s week-kneed response to different governments’ demands. He tw…