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Vox Suspends Editor Who Urged Trump Riots

INAPPROPRIATE

“Crosses a line,” said Vox founder Ezra Klein.

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Vox has suspended editor Emmett Rensin for a series of tweets he sent encouraging anti-Donald Trump riots. “We at Vox do not take institutional positions on most questions, and we encourage our writers to debate and disagree,” Vox founder Ezra Klein wrote in a statement posted online. “But direct encouragement of riots crosses a line between expressing a contrary opinion and directly encouraging dangerous, illegal activity.”

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