The Telegraph has contacted Twitter for comment. However, Musk has slimmed down the network’s communications with press over recent months – emails to its press office are now automatically responded to with a poo emoji.

It comes after a row erupted between Musk and the American NPR network after Musk changed NPR’s label to “state-affiliated media” – which effectively suggested the US government could influence its editorial policy and comparing it to outlets such as the Kremlin-funded Russia Today.

Twitter says it defined state-affiliated media outlets as “outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution”.

According to NPR, roughly 1pc of its annual operating budget comes from government grants.

Twitter has since changed the description of NPR to “government funded media”, after NPR said it would not tweet from the account while it carried that description.

However, when the tag “government funded media” is clicked on the BBC’s Twitter profile, it links to Twitter’s policy page on government accounts and state-affiliated media.

No definition of what Twitter considers “government funded media” to mean is currently given.

It comes after Musk stripped the New York Times of its blue tick last week, suggesting in tweets that he had personally ordered the removal of the symbol, which proves the identity of an account holder as a trusted source.

This came after reports the New York Times had refused to pay up to $1,000 per month to hang on to the tick.