CBC and other public media companies have had the “government-funded media” tags removed from their Twitter accounts.

The change happened late on Thursday, the same day that the Global Task Force for Public Media called for the social media company to remove the designation.

Earlier this week, CBC paused its Twitter activity when it had a tag describing it as “government-funded media” added to its account. This came after the same tag was applied to several public U.S. broadcasters, which led Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to ask Twitter to add the label to CBC’s account. While CBC and other public broadcasters do receive a portion of their funding from governments, they objected to the tag based on the implication that the government also controlled their coverage, undermining their credibility and independence.

The tag had also been applied to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) and Radio New Zealand (RNZ), which are also members of the task force and expressed similar concerns to the CBC. Catherine Tait, CBC’s president and CEO, is chair of the task force, formed by the Public Media Alliance to tackle issues facing public media globally.

In its statement, the task force pointed to Twitter’s own policy that defined government-funded media as organizations where the government “may have varying degrees of government involvement over editorial content.” Echoing CBC’s own arguments from earlier this week, the group of broadcasters pointed out that their editorial independence from their governments was protected by law, as well as their own internal editorial policies.

BBC briefly had the tag applied to its account last week, but had it replaced with “publicly funded media” after the U.K.’s national broadcaster objected to the classification.

The task force said in its statement that a designation like “publicly funded media” would be more appropriate. No tag of any sort appears on any of the broadcasters’ accounts as of Friday morning.

Twitter has not provided an explanation for the removal. The company no longer replies to press requests for comment.

Also on Thursday, Twitter began removing the “blue checks” from what had become known as “legacy” verified accounts – accounts that had been verified for belonging to a notable person or organization, as opposed to paying for the designation through the Twitter Blue subscription service.

Twitter still has gold verification check marks appearing on the account for what it calls “official organizations,” as well as grey check marks for government accounts and heads of state.