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I don't know about Matrix, but Riot, the default frontend, certainly isn't: https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/7062 Copy/paste is a pretty fundamental feature.

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I was the original reporter of linked bug. In fairness to Riot team, it appears to be an upstream bug with their rte: https://github.com/ianstormtaylor/slate/issues/2612

This only applies to text with embedded formatting, like bold and italic

It doesn't have to have any explicit formatting, it just needs to be rich text. If you try pasting anything from a web browser or WYSIWYG editor it will break.

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