NPR leaves Twitter amid dispute over labeling

NPR will stop sharing content on Twitter, the company announced Wednesday -- a rebuke of certain labels the social media platform attached to the news outlet.

The international media non-profit said the categorization -- first as "US state-affiliated media" and later "government-funded media" -- prompted the outlet to stop posting "fresh content to its 52 official Twitter feeds," according to a Wednesday statement.

"It would be a disservice to the serious work you all do here to continue to share it on a platform that is associating the federal charter for public...