Twitter pulls its Spaces group audio feature after Musk run-in with banned journalists

The Spaces group audio feature was pulled after Musk joined a group conversation that included journalists that had been banned from the platform.

Several prominent journalists have been suspended by the social network for covering a story that was banned for using publicly- available data to track a private jet.

Some people who had been banned from the service were able to still converse with other members of the service. The Washington Post's Drew Harwell and Matt Binder, as well as Jack Sweeney, the creator of the Elon Jet account, were among the journalists who had their accounts suspended by the social networking site.

Musk criticized those who shared real-time location data of his private jet, as well as those who reported on it. The exchange is available on the internet.

After being pressed by journalists over some of his inconsistencies, Musk abruptly left the conversation.

It is not possible to start a new Spaces conversation or join an existing one at the time of writing. Musk said that it was fixing a legacy bug and that it should work again tomorrow.

When compared to the events of the past 24 hours, the recent grand proclamations around Twitter 2.0 and its "continued commitment to the public conversation" could not be more sincere.