Cosgrave defends dinner with two journalists disinvited from Web Summit 

Web Summit CEO Paddy Cosgrave gestures while answering a question at a press conference held in Lisbon, Portugal. 

Web Summit chief executive Paddy Cosgrave has said he doesn’t see why two journalists whose invitations he had rescinded from the event should be “cancelled from the planet”.

Mr Cosgrave said that he had received a large backlash from journalists regarding the cancelling of Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate of The Grayzone website since their invitations to speak at the Web Summit were revoked last week.