X blocked hacked JD Vance dossier links after the Trump campaign flagged it
by Wes Davis from The Verge - All Posts on (#6REHS)
Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge The Presidential campaign of Donald Trump asked X to stop links to a story containing VP nominee JD Vance's hacked dossier from circulating before X chose to block them, reports The New York Times. X had cited its rules on posting unredacted private personal information" as its justification for suspending the reporter who first published the dossier in his story.
That's a markedly different set of actions than those Musk took two years ago after criticizing Twitter's decision to suppress a 2020 news story about Hunter Biden's laptop. He called the choice a violation of the Constitution's First Amendment" and seeded internal documents related to the decision to certain journalists to report on - which doxxed people in the process.
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