President Donald Trump’s campaign reportedly worked with Company X to block information about J.D. Vance from being posted on social media platforms, resulting in the journalists who revealed the information being banned from the site.
The former president’s team has hired X, a company owned by Trump supporter billionaire Elon Musk, to be put together by his campaign to vet his running mate, the New York Times reported. They contacted us about a 271-page document that reportedly involved independent journalist Ken Klippenstein.
In response, Company X blocked links to the material because it contained sensitive personal information, including the Ohio senator’s Social Security number, and banned Klippenstein from its platform.
Documents that Mr. Krippenstein published on his Substack in September appear to be related to the hacking of the Trump campaign earlier this year, which the FBI has linked to Iran. Documents of the hack were shared with several media outlets, but the media chose not to publish them.
Media outlets also focused significant attention on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign files, which were hacked and leaked by Russian intelligence before she ultimately lost the presidential election to Trump. A similar decision was not reached. At one point, Trump said he hoped Russia could “discover” some of Clinton’s files.
The removal of material from X highlighted Musk, the world’s richest man,’s increasingly strong support for President Trump’s attempts to return to the White House after losing the 2020 election to Joe Biden. . After acquiring Twitter in 2022, Musk said he supported free speech and the open sharing of information, even if it offended one political party or the other.
Last week, Musk appeared with the former president at a rally in Pennsylvania, performing an awkward jump on stage and then quoting the Republican candidate’s “Make America Great Again” slogan, saying, “I’m not just a maga. I am Dark Maga,” he declared.
Musk added that “this will be the last election” if Trump doesn’t beat Kamala Harris in November, adding that she and her fellow Democrats “want to take away the right to free speech, the right to bear arms. They want to take away their rights,” he complained. They are effectively trying to take away your right to vote. ”
Krippenstein, whose X account was restored following a New York Times report, said in a post on Substack on Friday that Musk had bought political influence and was “exercising that influence with increasing brazenness.” “
“The real election interference here is that social media companies are able to herald certain information that is inappropriate to American voters,” he wrote.
“Two of our most sacred rights as Americans are freedom of speech and assembly, whether online or not. Anyone with enough numbers in their bank account can enjoy these rights. Being able to restrict rights is a national humiliation.”
Musk plans to continue attending Trump rallies and could be knocking on voters’ doors next week to campaign in Pennsylvania. He funds a political action group called America Pac, which has spent about $80 million to help Mr. Trump reach voters in key battleground states such as Pennsylvania.
