Donald Trump’s campaign asked X to block JD Vance Leak

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Donald Trump’s The presidential campaign staff would have asked Elon Musk to block links to JD Vance dossier on the X platform before the action.

Members of Donald Trump’s campaign staff have reportedly contacted Elon Musk to request that links to a dossier on his running mate JD Vance be blocked from X, formerly Twitter. The request apparently came before X made the decision to suspend Ken Klippenstein, the freelance journalist, from the platform. Klippenstein had posted a link to the dossier in his newsletter. The platform’s security account stated that the reason for the suspension was due to its “rules on publishing unredacted private personal information.” Klippenstein had publicly questioned why other news outlets had not published the document after obtaining it. The Trump campaign claimed it was leaked after an alleged hack by Iran.

Klippenstein would be quietly reinstated over the weekend as reported by the New York Times broken He was not named in the article, but later noted in posts on X, formerly Twitter, that Musk’s actions were contrary to his previous stance as a “free speech absolutist” who had considered actions by the platform in 2020 about banning stories about Hunter Biden and his laptop as “incredibly inappropriate” after acquiring the company in 2022. Following backlash, former CEO Jack Dorsey changed the materials policy hacked to avoid “direct URL blocking”.

The news comes as Musk has been increasingly vocal in his support for the Republican presidential nominee, being described as “obsessive, almost manic, about the election,” even appearing on stage with Trump at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. , last week. He has also expressed this fervor in a recent interview with former Fox News reporter Tucker Carlson, where he stated that if Trump didn’t win in November he would be “screwed.” It has not gone unnoticed by many on the X platform, who have noted how much pro-Trump propaganda has been allowed to be posted there. Trump has recently said he would consider making Musk part of his administration, commenting at a campaign rally over the weekend that he was looking to make him “secretary of cost reduction.”