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

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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 published the dossier in his story.

These are markedly different actions than those Musk took two years ago after he criticized Twitter's decision to suppress a 2020 news story about Hunter Biden's laptop. He called the decision “a violation of the First Amendment” and distributed internal documents related to the decision to specific journalists to report on – deceiving people in the process.

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