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Musk suspends journalists from Twitter, claims ‘assassination’ danger

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When a murderous dictatorship hosted the World Cup

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Musk suspends journalists from Twitter, claims ‘assassination’ danger

Many of the journalists, including from The Washington Post and New York Times, had written about dramas surrounding billionaire Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter.