Elon Musk Threatens to Reassign NPR's Twitter Handle

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Starting in the world of Twitter today. The company's chief executive, Elon Musk threatening to reassign National Public Radio's Twitter account. According to NPR, the US based broadcaster said Musk is suggesting he reassign the network's main account under the at NPR handle to another organization comes as NPR stopped posting content to all of its 52 official Twitter fees last month which was part of a protest against a Twitter designation that implied government involvement in its editorial content. Musk in an email to an NPR reporter saying, quote, our policy is to recycle handles that are definitely dormant. Same policy applies to all accounts. No special treatment. Musk said for NPR.