Elon Musk fires THOUSANDS of Twitter staff members! (UPDATE: TWITTERPOCALYPSE! Journalists and leftist accounts banned without warning!))

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X blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier

First as tragedy, then as farce.

www.theverge.com

X blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier​

And suspends the journalist who published it.​

By Elizabeth Lopatto, a reporter who writes about tech, money, and human behavior. She joined The Verge in 2014 as science editor. Previously, she was a reporter at Bloomberg.
Sep 26, 2024, 3:36 PM EDT

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images

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 screenshot of a search for a link to Ken Klippenstein’s newsletter. A search with the result “No results for https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/read-the-jd-vance-dossier”

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 that a source called “Robert,” with an AOL email address, offered him the document. Contained in it are what appear to be Vance’s full name, addresses, and part of his social security number.

X said in a post on its safety account that Klippenstein was “temporarily suspended for violating our rules on posting unredacted private personal information.” The company didn’t comment on why links to Klippenstein’s article are blocked. The X account for Klippenstein’s newsletter confirmed the reasoning for the ban. “Ken Klippenstein has been banned by Twitter for publishing private information in contradiction of its rules,” wrote KlipNews.

Twitter, before it was bought by Elon Musk, had a policy regarding hacked materials — but the page is no longer available. A pre-Musk version of the policy, dated 2019, stated that posting or linking to hacked content is prohibited. Under this policy, links to a story by The New York Post about Hunter Biden, the current president’s son, were banned. But in October 2020, Twitter changed its policy to say that it would no longer block hacked materials, after an outcry about how the company had handled the Post story. “Straight blocking of URLs was wrong, and we updated our policy and enforcement to fix,” wrote then-CEO Jack Dorsey.

Musk was one of the people who was unhappy with the decision to ban links to the Post’s story. “Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate,” Musk wrote of the decision on the story in April 2022. He even invited former Rolling Stone pundit Matt Taibbi to examine internal documents showing how Twitter handled the decision. (In the course of tweeting his conclusions, Taibbi exposed the email addresses of Dorsey and Representative Ro Khanna.)

It is unclear why X is blocking Klippenstein’s story, but attempts by three staffers at The Verge to post links of Klippenstein’s newsletter failed. We received error messages that read, “We can’t complete this request because this link has been identified by X or our partners as being potentially harmful. Visit our help center to learn more.”

Screenshot of my test post

Update, September 26th: Added comment from X’s safety account.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Musk was one of the people who was unhappy with the decision to ban links to the Post’s story. “Suspending the Twitter account of a major news organization for publishing a truthful story was obviously incredibly inappropriate,” Musk wrote of the decision on the story in April 2022. He even invited former Rolling Stone pundit Matt Taibbi to examine internal documents showing how Twitter handled the decision. (In the course of tweeting his conclusions, Taibbi exposed the email addresses of Dorsey and Representative Ro Khanna.)

Musk is such a flaming hypocrite. He doesn't actually believe in a single one of the principles he's exposed.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Also, I heard the Vance dossier doesn't have anything useful because the Trump campaign did a for-shyt job vetting him and it's basically just what any Coli poster could have come up with after an afternoon of google searches.

Has anyone verified whether there's anything damaging in the dossier or not?

 

[Damnshow]

By banning he just made sure more people will talk about it.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Remember when "too many bots and not enough transparency" were Musk's stated reason for pulling out of the Twitter deal?

 

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All these posts about “why aren’t the floods in Asheville on the news” have thoroughly convinced me that literally every bit of discourse is driven by stancil’s theory about social media algos. It’s not just the economy, it’s any sense of reality

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I feel like I'm having a stroke.


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to be clear: this is bad




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Fact: Elon Musk has personally retweeted Tenet Media (Russian government propaganda) over 60 goddamn times since he made this declaration

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Let's do a Space Bryan




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[Lucky_Lefty]

Boy been a fake

The Optimus robots at Tesla’s Cybercab event were humans in disguise

The robots were just a little too slick.

www.theverge.com

 

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Brazil bans X: all the latest news

Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes told the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) to limit access to X within 24 hours and has given Apple and Google five days to remove X from their mobile app stores. The country will also impose daily fines of $50,000 Brazilian real (~$8,900 USD) to people who try to access X through a virtual private network (VPN), as reported by Poder360.

how would they know

word to the houston ..

 

[O³ (O cubed)]

how would they know

word to the houston ..

Governments watch the majority of internet traffic. If you haven't realised this by now, I envy you.

 

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Governments watch the majority of internet traffic. If you haven't realised this by now, I envy you.

how would they know what you are doing within the vpn. ?

 

[The Plug]

how would they know what you are doing within the vpn. ?

Pretty sure many vpn providers will happily give your info to the FBI if requested.