Defining What’s News: Digital Platforms and the Labelling of Public Service Media Outlets

The fraught relationship between digital platforms and news organisations seems to have entered into another evolutionary shift. Specifically, platforms such as X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook appear to be de-emphasising news in users? feeds (Frier, 2023; Isaac et al., 2023; Kobie, 2023). At the same time, many news organisations ? including public service news outlets ? are withdrawing from these platforms, for a variety of reasons (Ahlander, 2023). One reason for this withdrawal among public service news outlets has been dissatisfaction with the way in which some platforms are choosing to label such outlets (Hatmaker, 2023). Specifically, platforms such as X have