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X suspends journalist Ken Klippenstein after he published J.D. Vance dossier

Journalist Ken Klippenstein's decision to release the leaked vetting dossier of vice presidential candidate JD Vance earned him a temporary suspension on X.

Several news outlets that received the vetting dossier of the Republican vice presidential candidate leaked by hackers chose not to publish the sensitive document since it contained personal information. President Trump’s campaign has accused Iran’s government on more than one occasion of hacking into its files and releasing the dossier back in June. Other news outlets chose not to release the document but Klippenstein says he felt they declined “in fear of finding itself at odds with the [US} government’s campaign against ‘foreign malign influence’” referring to the National Counterterrorism Center’s organization of the same name that seeks to prevent interference in elections.

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