https://www.rt.com/news/497293-twitter-label-state-media-officials/
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Twitter left a sizable loophole for the US and friendly nations, explaining that “state-financed media organizations with editorial independence, like the BBC in the UK or NPR in the US for example, will not be labeled.”
That's what makes Twitter's justification so laughably credulous. It's like what a child under the age of innocence would believe.
"But these guys told me they were good though."