Meta blocks links to the hacked JD Vance dossier on Threads, Instagram, and Facebook

Meta restricts links on threads, Instagram and Facebook that lead to Ken Klippenstein's newsletter, which contains a dossier from JD Vance that was allegedly obtained in an Iranian hack of the Trump campaign. The company appears to have removed posts containing the link and is apparently blocking links to PDFs of the dossier hosted elsewhere.

Meta spokesman Dave Arnold emailed Meta's statement to The edge:

“Our policies do not allow content from hacked sources or content leaked as part of a foreign government operation to influence US elections. We will block the sharing of such materials in our apps in accordance with our community standards.”

A privacy breach meta page prohibits users from sharing details “obtained from hacked sources” as well as “material purporting to reveal nonpublic information relevant to an election that is shared as part of an influence operation by a foreign government.”

People in threads have reported that Meta has removed their posts with the link. Meta also appears to disable links to the document hosted elsewhere, such as in the following post with a Scribd link or in another post that purports to link to the PDF on a Google Drive.

The Neither company responded to our request for comment by press time. We also asked Box, Apple, Dropbox and Microsoft if they were restricting the document, but none responded before we published this story.

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