X blocks links to hacked JD Vance dossier
www.theverge.com
First as tragedy, then as farce.

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.

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.

    • @meco03211
      39•3 months ago

      That says the Steele dossier was “fraudulent and discredited”. Did I miss something? I thought a decent amount of it was framed as hearsay and not trying to make a factual claim.

      • @jordanlund
        41•3 months ago

        The Steele Dossier was largely validated, even the more outrageous stuff like the pee tape. It’s fake, but it was a real tape and one of Trump’s goons in Russia tipped off Michael Cohen about it and how they stopped it from getting out.

        Confirmed in a footnote in the Mueller report of all things, that nobody read.

        https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/4/18/mueller-report-confirms-compromising-tapes-trump-russia

        The report found that Cohen received a text from Russian businessman Giorgi Rtskhiladze that stated he had, “Stopped flow of tapes from Russia but not sure if there’s anything else… Just so you know.'”

        In a follow-up text to Cohen, Rtskhiladze makes clear he’s talking about “compromising tapes of Trump rumored to be held by persons associated with the Russian real estate conglomerate Crocus Group, which had helped host the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant in Russia.”

      • @ganksy
        15•3 months ago

        Was exactly what stuck out to me. Don’t remember when that conclusion was reached.

      • Billiam
        12•3 months ago

        As best as I can remember, everything in the Steele Dossier has either been verified, or is unverified. Nothing to my knowledge has been proven to be incorrect.

      • @IchNichtenLichtenEnglish
        6•3 months ago

        I picked up on that too. The dossier was comprised of raw intel, it wasn’t characterized as comprehensive and 100% accurate.

    • Flying Squid
      9•3 months ago

      Oh my… I’m reading here that the couch didn’t consent…