X blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier
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X is preventing users from posting links to a newsletter containing a hacked document that’s alleged to be the Trump campaign’s research into vice presidential candidate JD Vance. The journalist who wrote the newsletter, Ken Klippenstein, has been suspended from the platform. Searches for posts containing a link to the newsletter turn up nothing.
A search with the result “No results for https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/read-the-jd-vance-dossier” A screenshot of a search for a link to Ken Klippenstein’s newsletter.The document allegedly comes from an Iranian hack of the Trump campaign. Though other news outlets have received information from the hack, they declined to publish. Klippenstein says in his newsletter...