To ensure the “comfort” and “safety” of candidates, donors and party activists, the Arizona Republican Party is barring journalists from mingling with the crowd at its election night watch party and interviewing attendees, instead corralling reporters in the back of the room and imposing restrictions on who they can speak with.

“We don’t want the press going out and talking to people who are going out and having a good night,” AZGOP spokesperson Kristy Dohnel said in an Oct. 25 interview. She later hedged, saying restricting the media’s access was about “safety” and a “lot of things.”

In an email sent to local and national media outlets on Oct. 24, the state GOP laid out the rules for any journalists who want to attend the election night event at The Scottsdale Resort at McCormick Ranch.

When an author's book gets banned or confiscated, one might imagine that the writer might be frustrated, or even angry.

But when Keri Blakinger received word that the Florida state prison system placed her book, "Corrections in Ink," on a temporary ban, she tweeted, "Honestly, I AM SO PROUD."

Blakinger, who is a journalist covering prisons for The Marshall Project, was really responding tongue-in-cheek — an ironic response to a truly head-scratching situation.

Twitter will develop a “content moderation council” before making any “major content decisions or account reinstatements," Elon Musk tweeted Friday.

Why it matters: Musk on Thursday completed his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, which already has a group that focuses on content moderation.

But the social media platform's efforts fell short in Washington state, where the law requires companies running digital ads to make information about them available to the public — including the ads' cost, their sponsors, descriptions of the geolocations and audiences targeted, and the total number of impressions generated.