Argentina’s leader bars journalists from government HQ, raising concerns about press freedom

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The president blocked accredited reporters from entering the government’s headquarters. He took to social media, in all caps, to furiously insult the country’s news media as “filthy scum that claims to be journalists.” He posted an AI-generated image that showed a local TV journalist in an orange prison jumpsuit. The president in question was not the one you might think. It was Argentina’s radical libertarian Javier Milei. Milei’s decision last week to expel the en