X blocked hacked JD Vance dossier links after the Trump campaign flagged it

Oct 14, 2024 03:41 AM - 2 months ago 75053

Elon Musk heavy criticized Twitter for its akin prime to extremity the dispersed of a Hunter Biden story.

By Wes Davis, a play editor who covers the latest successful tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and much arsenic a tech journalist since 2020.

Oct 13, 2024, 8:41 PM UTC

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The Presidential run of Donald Trump asked X to extremity links to a communicative containing VP nominee JD Vance’s hacked dossier from circulating earlier X chose to artifact them, reports The New York Times. X had cited its “rules connected posting unredacted backstage individual information” arsenic its justification for suspending the newsman who first published the dossier successful his story.

That’s a markedly different group of actions than those Musk took 2 years agone aft criticizing Twitter’s determination to suppress a 2020 news story astir Hunter Biden’s laptop. He called the prime “a usurpation of the Constitution’s First Amendment” and seeded soul documents related to the determination to definite journalists to study connected — which doxxed group successful the process.

Then again, Musk, whose grounds arsenic a “free reside absolutist” is mixed astatine best, has been heavily involved successful efforts to re-elect the erstwhile President. Trump has mused much than once astir giving Musk some cardinal role successful his administration.