x prevents users from posting links to a newsletter containing a pirated document That's supposedly the Trump campaign's investigation into vice presidential candidate JD Vance. The journalist who wrote the newsletter, Ken Klippenstein, x.com/kenklippenstein”>has been suspended from the platform. Searches for posts containing a link to the newsletter return nothing.
The document allegedly comes from an Iranian hack of the Trump campaign. Although other media outlets have received information about the hack, they refused to publish. Klippenstein says in his newsletter that a source named “Robert,” with an AOL email address, offered him the document. On it is what appears to be Vance's full name, his address and part of his social security number.
“twitter has banned Ken Klippenstein for posting private information in contradiction to its rules” x.com/klipnewsorg/status/1839368602275004508″>wrote KlipNewsaccount x for the newsletter.
twitter, before being bought by Elon Musk, had a policy regarding pirated materials, but the page x.com/en/rules-and-policies/hacked-materials”>is no longer available. TO twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/hacked-materials”>pre-Musk version of the policyof 2019, declared that it is prohibited to publish or link to pirated content. Under this policy, links to a story The New York Post about Hunter Biden, the son of the current president, were banned. But in October 2020, twitter changed its policy and said it would no longer block pirated materials, after an outcry over how the company had handled the Mail history. “Direct URL blocking was incorrect and we updated our policy and enforcement to fix it,” he wrote x.com/jack/status/1317081843443912706″>then-CEO Jack Dorsey.
Musk was one of the people who was not happy with the decision to ban links to the Publications history. “Suspending the twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate,” Musk wrote about the decision on the story in April 2022. He even invited the former rolling stone expert Matt Taibbi to examine internal documents showing how twitter handled the decision. (As he tweeted his conclusions, Taibbi exposed the email addresses of Dorsey and Rep. Ro Khanna.)
It's unclear why x is blocking Klippenstein's story, but attempts by three employees of The edge Links to the Klippenstein newsletter could not be published. We received error messages saying: “We cannot complete this request because x or our partners have identified this link as potentially harmful. Visit our help center for more information.” I emailed the company for comment.
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