JD Vance is, as he admits, “connected to a lot of weird right-wing subcultures.” His much-mocked comments about childless cat ladies and unassimilated Italian immigrants come from a “masculinist” podcast. He doesn't eat seed oils, a dietary restriction that's extremely common online. When he was nominated to become former President Donald Trump's vice president, his … Read more
Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Donald Trump's presidential campaign reportedly asked X to stop sharing links to an article containing vice presidential candidate JD Vance's hacked dossier before X blocked them The New York Times. X cited its “rules for publishing unredacted private personal information” as justification for suspending the reporter who first … Read more
The question of whether Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) would challenge the 2024 election results quickly devolved into an argument about censorship and Big Tech during the debate with Democratic nominee Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN). “You said you did not certify the last presidential election and asked states to submit alternative electors. … Read more
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. … Read more
X is preventing users from posting links to a newsletter that contains a hacked document purporting to be Trump campaign research on vice presidential candidate JD Vance. The journalist who wrote the newsletter, Ken Klippenstein, has been suspended from the platform. Nothing comes up when searching for posts that contain a link to the newsletter. … Read more