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@lemmy.world
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      382 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@lemmy.world
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        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.”

      • Billiam
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        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.

  • @cygnus@lemmy.ca
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    I don’t even care at this point. Anybody still actively using that shithole website is complicit.

    • frustrated_phagocytosis
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      I was reading about the WNBA complaining about players encountering sexism and racism on social media, saying that participating in social media is necessary for players. Like are you serious? If you go on a site full of bigots, you’re going to find bigotry. Stop using it!

        • Omega
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          It’s related to their ability to earn a living sinking 3-pointers.

      • chingadera
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        A company I used to work for ran some ads featuring gay couples, and we got a shit load hate mail and messages that we had to respond to “thanking them for their feedback” I was one of the few that said fuck that, I’m not thanking bigotry, they still had us do it for a few weeks before allowing us to ignore them. I just said from the get go, I’m not doing these cases, if you have a problem with that let me know, if you guys want to do them be my guest.

        Don’t put up with this shit.

      • @Facebones@reddthat.com
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        “BuT eVeRyOnE iS oN tWiTtEr”

        Yeah, because people like you make it compulsory and other people who won’t stop complaining about it refuse to leave. 🤷‍♂️

      • @Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        saying that participating in social media is necessary for players

        That’s a rational statement from the viewpoint of “you exist to make us money by cultivating brand recognition”. Objectively, it is in no way necessary to participate in any or all aspects of human society. That it may bring benefits does not make it ‘necessary’, irregardless of the fact that such participation can also bring harms.

  • themeatbridge
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    Oh no, Vance’s full name? How dare he? Now everyone will know his middle name is “Mertrude,” which is weird because he changed his own name, so he picked that, spelled it that way, and then thought his middle initial was “D.”

    And of course none of that’s true. But if it were true, on the list of 100 weirdest Vance facts, it wouldn’t even rank.

    • @meco03211@lemmy.world
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      This timeline is so fucking stupid I wasn’t immediately discounting the “Mertrude” claim because… well this timeline is fucking stupid.

    • KillingTimeItself
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      52 months ago

      it also has his phone #, address, half of his SSN, and email as well as some other PII that probably shouldn’t be out there, but oh well.

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        So, basically what you would have gotten from the white pages, and an incomplete social security number. Is he worried someone is going to try to steal his identity? Mail him anthrax? Text or email him dick pics? Wasn’t he already concerned about those things? He’s the nominee for VP, and his running mate tried to have his predecessor killed on national television. He has tied to Russian oligarchs who defenestrate judges, and he’s the target of international spies who want his access to state secrets. He’s worried about half his social security number?

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          32 months ago

          it’s his complete dox essentially. Unsure if that phone # is his personal or a work, but if its his personal i could see that being pretty annoying, having your personal/work phone being completely overwhelmed by like 20 million people on the internet would be something.

          I can see why it’s a concern, but i’ve seen far worse on twitter, so i can’t really care.

          • themeatbridge
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            I mean, I can also understand the knee jerk reaction, but I cannot imagine that he hasn’t had a new phone with a new number since the moment they knew their data was compromised.

  • 4grams
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    262 months ago

    something about this seems familiar. I swear, there was some dude who wanted to buy twitter to prevent this exact sort of thing from happening… wonder what ever happened to that guy?

      • 4grams
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        52 months ago

        nah, you’re thinking of the guy who owns x. like anyone would be dumb enough to destroy that much brand recognition by renaming twitter…

  • EleventhHour
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    Oh, well, it’s a good thing that it’s the 1920s and there’s no internet, otherwise he’d be in trouble!

    • KillingTimeItself
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      62 months ago

      stolen document, not publicly released, they hacked whatever had this document, stole it, therefore it’s not a hacked document.

      Also PDFs can be cheesed to run code, so that is also a possibility, though i doubt it.