X Suspends Journalist Ken Klippenstein Over Publication of JD Vance Dossier |
“The ‘free speech absolutist’ has once again silenced a journalist he didn’t like,” said one observer.
X Suspends Journalist Ken Klippenstein Over Publication of JD Vance Dossier |
“The ‘free speech absolutist’ has once again silenced a journalist he didn’t like,” said one observer.
Would they have banned and suspended if it was something about Hunter Biden
autotldr on
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.commondreams.org/news/ken-klippenstein-x) reduced by 78%. (I’m a bot)
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> X-the social media platform formerly known as Twitter-suspended Ken Klippenstein's account Thursday after the investigative journalist posted an article containing a link to a dossier on Republican U.S. vice presidential candidate JD Vance that allegedly came from an Iranian hack of former President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign.
> Klippenstein continued: We should be honest about so-called private information contained in the dossier and "Private" information in general.
> "You decide for yourself." An X spokesperson told Zeteo's Justin Baragona that "Ken Klippenstein was temporarily suspended for violating our rules on posting unredacted private personal information, specifically Sen. Vance's physical addresses and the majority of his Social Security number." The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating the Trump campaign's claim of an Iranian hack.
The best thing any of Elon’s companies could do is distance themselves from this egomaniac.
SkillIsTooLow on
But conservatives will still cry about how *they’re* the ones being censored on social media.
Pdxduckman on
so all the journalists posting about Hunter Biden’s laptop were also suspended, right?…
PM_ME_YOUR_DALEKS on
More emails have been published from the leak, these showing that Rasmussen shares its polling data with the Trump campaign in violation of laws https://twitter.com/americanmuck
So interesting that Politico, NYT and the Washington Post didn’t find anything newsworthy in this email data dump they were also sent, yet we got their coverage of risotta recipes in the Hilary email leaks.
lala_b11 on
What happened to freedom of speech?
TheSethimus on
No tears shed here. Klippenstein is a mess. He needs more life experience before he gets back into journalism
KiscoKid1 on
So where can we read the dossier?
jgilla2012 on
Well yeah, Elon has entirely hitched his wagon to the Trump train.
He’s going to do everything he can, including silencing dissent on Twitter, to ensure Trump has the greatest chance to win.
Meanwhile it’s “controversial” that Zuckerberg recently announced that the Biden administration “pressured” Meta into helping prevent COVID misinformation from circulating on their platform. Talk about double standards.
Rhiney6 on
They had me until it said it contained Vance’s social security number and address.
BiggsIDarklighter on
This Ken Klippenstein is a Russian apologist who thinks the DOJ’s investigation into Russian election tampering is way overblown.
Seems Klippenstein’s release of this dossier may be just an attempt to minimize the outcry over election interference from foreign governments by holding up this one tepid internal report by the Trump campaign as supposed proof that election interference efforts by foreign governments are harmless shenanigans.
>The Ukraine war is entering its most dangerous phase, please become a paid subscriber (or gift one) so we can keep digging up facts about what the U.S.’s secret role in all this looks like.
And they’ll claim it was a false positive after the backlash hits I’m sure
Ooiee on
Wtf is anyone on Twitter for anymore?
LordWesleyAgain on
I mean he bought twitter to interfere with the 2024 election, that isn’t hyperbole.
BDBoop on
I am a member of some paid Substacks, but not his. And I was able to read as a free member. Just go subscribe and read it yourself, although it is the length of a book and who knows if you’re going to want to dig in.
Happy_Confusion_5501 on
To be fair, the document did contain unredacted information, but the solution to that is deleting the post and a warning. Not banning.
AdmiralCrackbar on
Stop using X, stop giving him attention.
lushootseed on
Elon musk is an absolute moron!
Jorgen_Pakieto on
Desperation at its finest on Elon’s part.
He’s going to look so silly when he finds that his donations went absolutely nowhere.
He’s going to look even sillier when X dies due to advertisement concerns of his far right wing exclusive free speech environment.
jimbo-barefoot on
If you’re getting your news from X then there probably isn’t any hope for you.
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Remember when free speech zealot Elon Musk was outraged by Twitter’s censorship…?
Pepperidge Farm Remembers…
Why are nearly 600m people still on this platform?
this is why he bought it.
IF I were on the Twitter replacement, I’d post Ken Klippenstein’s stuff.
Link to leaked docs: https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/read-the-jd-vance-dossier
Would they have banned and suspended if it was something about Hunter Biden
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.commondreams.org/news/ken-klippenstein-x) reduced by 78%. (I’m a bot)
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> X-the social media platform formerly known as Twitter-suspended Ken Klippenstein's account Thursday after the investigative journalist posted an article containing a link to a dossier on Republican U.S. vice presidential candidate JD Vance that allegedly came from an Iranian hack of former President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign.
> Klippenstein continued: We should be honest about so-called private information contained in the dossier and "Private" information in general.
> "You decide for yourself." An X spokesperson told Zeteo's Justin Baragona that "Ken Klippenstein was temporarily suspended for violating our rules on posting unredacted private personal information, specifically Sen. Vance's physical addresses and the majority of his Social Security number." The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating the Trump campaign's claim of an Iranian hack.
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Absolute knob.
The best thing any of Elon’s companies could do is distance themselves from this egomaniac.
But conservatives will still cry about how *they’re* the ones being censored on social media.
so all the journalists posting about Hunter Biden’s laptop were also suspended, right?…
More emails have been published from the leak, these showing that Rasmussen shares its polling data with the Trump campaign in violation of laws
https://twitter.com/americanmuck
So interesting that Politico, NYT and the Washington Post didn’t find anything newsworthy in this email data dump they were also sent, yet we got their coverage of risotta recipes in the Hilary email leaks.
What happened to freedom of speech?
No tears shed here. Klippenstein is a mess. He needs more life experience before he gets back into journalism
So where can we read the dossier?
Well yeah, Elon has entirely hitched his wagon to the Trump train.
He’s going to do everything he can, including silencing dissent on Twitter, to ensure Trump has the greatest chance to win.
Meanwhile it’s “controversial” that Zuckerberg recently announced that the Biden administration “pressured” Meta into helping prevent COVID misinformation from circulating on their platform. Talk about double standards.
They had me until it said it contained Vance’s social security number and address.
This Ken Klippenstein is a Russian apologist who thinks the DOJ’s investigation into Russian election tampering is way overblown.
Seems Klippenstein’s release of this dossier may be just an attempt to minimize the outcry over election interference from foreign governments by holding up this one tepid internal report by the Trump campaign as supposed proof that election interference efforts by foreign governments are harmless shenanigans.
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/russian-influence-operations-are
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/americas-shadow-war-in-ukraine
>The Ukraine war is entering its most dangerous phase, please become a paid subscriber (or gift one) so we can keep digging up facts about what the U.S.’s secret role in all this looks like.
Kudos to Klippenstein!
And *fuck* Musk.
https://open.substack.com/pub/kenklippenstein/p/read-the-jd-vance-dossier?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3rjzbm
Yeah major violation of free speech
And they’ll claim it was a false positive after the backlash hits I’m sure
Wtf is anyone on Twitter for anymore?
I mean he bought twitter to interfere with the 2024 election, that isn’t hyperbole.
I am a member of some paid Substacks, but not his. And I was able to read as a free member. Just go subscribe and read it yourself, although it is the length of a book and who knows if you’re going to want to dig in.
To be fair, the document did contain unredacted information, but the solution to that is deleting the post and a warning. Not banning.
Stop using X, stop giving him attention.
Elon musk is an absolute moron!
Desperation at its finest on Elon’s part.
He’s going to look so silly when he finds that his donations went absolutely nowhere.
He’s going to look even sillier when X dies due to advertisement concerns of his far right wing exclusive free speech environment.
If you’re getting your news from X then there probably isn’t any hope for you.
Elmo, free speech absolutist: No not like that!
Elon Musk busy at working for Donald J Trump.
Who. The. Fuck. Still. Has. A. Twitter. Account.