X says it suspended reporter for “posting unredacted personal information.”…

Elon Musk’s X is blocking links to the JD Vance “dossier” containing the Trump campaign’s research on the vice presidential nominee. X also suspended Ken Klippenstein, the journalist who published the dossier that apparently comes from an Iranian hack of the Trump campaign.

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
    192·
    3 months ago

    At this point it’s starting to look like he’s intentionally tanking Twitter to remove a major platform where people can organize.

    He’s making moves intentionally stupid that destroy the Twitter brand that was built up.

    • Godort@lemm.ee
      26·
      3 months ago

      People have been saying this since he was forced into buying the platform. I initially thought that could be true too.

      As time has gone on, however, I’m starting to think he’s just that incompetent

    • RustyShackleford@literature.cafeEnglish
      13·
      3 months ago

      He might be doing both, but mostly with a dash of the fact he’s a spoiled self-destructive moron. So if he can’t have it, no one can.

    • WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
      61·
      3 months ago

      Never attribute to malice what can reasonably be attributed to the stupidity, hate, and pig-headedness of an exceptionally fragile billionaire.

      • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        Unless tou know they are malicious narccisists, them attributing it to malice is the logical thing to do. Plus hate and pig-headedness are common movitators for malice…

        • WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
          31·
          3 months ago

          Pissing away 40bn - 15% of your net worth to own the libs by destroying a company you were forced to buy requires an incredible degree of stupidity. Imagine the damage a remotely competent malicious narcissist could do with that kind of money.

          For context, the 2016 election cost $6.5bn - for both sides, presidential and congressional elections - that comfortably buys you a quarter century of elections - and if the GOP has power for that long, at this point, there won’t be another election to fund.

          Musk clearly has sub-normal IQ - there’s no shame in that, but he has no shortage of other reasons to be ashamed of himself.