Trump campaign worked with Musk’s X to keep leaked JD Vance file off platform

Trump’s presidential campaign worked with X to prevent information about his running mate JD Vance from being posted on the social media platform
-- a move that resulted in the journalist who revealed the information being kicked off the site, according to reports.

The GOP candidate’s team contacted X, owned by the billionaire Trump backer Elon Musk, about a 271-page document compiled by his campaign to vet Vance that was linked to by #Ken #Klippenstein, an independent journalist, the New York Times has reported.

X responded by #blocking links to the material, claiming that it contained sensitive personal information such as the Ohio US senator’s social security number, and banned Klippenstein from the platform.

The materials published by Klippenstein on his Substack in September appear to be related to a hack of the Trump campaign earlier this year,
which the FBI has linked to Iran.
Documents from the hack have been shared with several media outlets, which have chosen to not publish them.

Media outlets did NOT reach the same decision when they gave significant attention to files from #Hillary #Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign that were hacked and leaked by Russian intelligence
before she ultimately lost that election to Trump.

At one point Trump also said he hoped Russia would be “able to find” some of Clinton’s files
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/12/x-twitter-jd-vance-leaked-file?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

What X silencing the journalist reporting on hacked materials shows about the ethics of weaponized disclosures

#Klippenstein notes that his silencing by X is political -- the company has used a hammer where it could have wielded a scalpel:

X typically provides users who post something in violation of its policies the opportunity to remove the offending posts in order to have their accounts reinstated.

I have received no such offer.

As an experiment, last night my editor and I decided to redact all “private” information from the Vance Dossier in my story here at Substack.

Despite filing an appeal in which I mention this, I remain banned.

So it’s not about a violation of X’s policies.

What else would you call this but politically motivated?

https://civic-texts.ghost.io/what-x-silencing-a-journalist-reporting-on-hacked-materials-shows-about-the-ethics-of-weaponized-disclosures/

If you're curious to read Ken #Klippenstein's article about the Jorkin Depeanus Vance dossier, or the dossier itself (ostensibly, but not 100% provably, pulled from Trump campaign files by Iranian hackers - read with a grain of salt), but you're hesitant to share a Substack link because of all the Nazi monetization, I have good news for you: several people have already archived it! Read it here: https://web.archive.org/web/20240926200038/https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/read-the-jd-vance-dossier

#JDVance #VanceDossier #USPolitics

I'll post this here since it's being suppressed on the bird site.

#tesla #Klippenstein
https://theintercept.com/2023/01/10/tesla-crash-footage-autopilot/