Elon Musk temporarily suspends Twitter Spaces after being confronted by banned journalist

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Last night, Elon Musk popped into a Spaces chat discussing his move to ban a bunch of journalists' accounts from the platform. Confronted by Buzzfeed News' Katie Notopoulos and The Washington Post's Drew Harwell (who was one of the banned reporters) on how he can claim to support free speech while also ejecting journalists who report information about him that he does not like, Musk stuck to his refrain of you dox, you get suspended." (The banned users had not, in fact, doxxed him.) He dipped out when pressed further.

Within hours, Twitter Spaces was at least partially removed from the platform, with users saying they were unable to access it on iOS or Android. Musk claimed that the feature was removed to fix a newly identified bug:...

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