Elon Musk tweeted that spaces were temporarily available because a ‘legacy bug’ was being fixed. Legacy bug would imply that it had crept up during recent changes.

However, users speculated that Spaces had become unavailable due to Musk’s confrontation with the journalists.

The Twitter CEO had deactivated journalists from CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times for seven days for allegedly making data about his private jet’s movement public.

A journalist from Buzzfeed set up a space to discuss the development, and was joined two of the suspended journalists. This revealed that though suspended accounts can not post or interact with information, they could still speak in Spaces.

Musk himself joined the space to say that any one who posts private information on Twitter would be suspended and then left the session. The Spaces feature was discontinued soon after.

The latest development comes rising criticism that the billionare’s claims of supporting free speech might be completely hollow.