Yes. Youtube applies the label "NPR is an American Public Broadcasting service." It applies the label "VOA is funded in whole or in part by the American government" to the VOA channel. Note that the two labels are not the same. Interestingly, it does not label the @DeptOfDefense account at all.
And it's not just US institutions, they label the Al Jazeera English channel with "Al Jazeera is funded in whole or in part by the Qatari government."
I think what I'm saying is, if YouTube believed NPR got all of it's funding from the US Government, it would label it differently than it does. And YouTube's labeling seems to be incomplete (otherwise certainly the department of defense channel would have a label.) Which leads to my conclusion... maybe you shouldn't depend on YouTube as the arbiter of what is and what isn't funded by various governments.
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Youtube also labels NPR. Twitter is correct in labeling them state affiliated.
Yes. Youtube applies the label "NPR is an American Public Broadcasting service." It applies the label "VOA is funded in whole or in part by the American government" to the VOA channel. Note that the two labels are not the same. Interestingly, it does not label the @DeptOfDefense account at all.
And it's not just US institutions, they label the Al Jazeera English channel with "Al Jazeera is funded in whole or in part by the Qatari government."
I think what I'm saying is, if YouTube believed NPR got all of it's funding from the US Government, it would label it differently than it does. And YouTube's labeling seems to be incomplete (otherwise certainly the department of defense channel would have a label.) Which leads to my conclusion... maybe you shouldn't depend on YouTube as the arbiter of what is and what isn't funded by various governments.