Meta is restricting links on Threads, Instagram and Facebook to Ken Klippenstein’s newsletter, which contains the J.D. Vance dossier that was allegedly captured in an Iranian hack of the Trump campaign. The company has apparently removed the post containing the link and appears to be blocking links to archived PDFs hosted elsewhere.
Meta spokesman Dave Arnold emailed Meta’s statement to edge:
“Our policy does not allow content from hacked sources or content leaked as part of a foreign government operation to influence U.S. elections. We will prevent such material from being shared on our apps in accordance with our community standards.
A meta page about privacy violations bans users from sharing details “obtained from hacked sources” and “material designed to reveal non-public election-related information shared as part of a foreign government influence operation.”
Users on Threads reported that Meta removed their posts containing the link. Meta also appears to disable links to documents hosted elsewhere, such as the post below with a link to Scribd, or another post claiming to link to a PDF on Google Drive.
X has also been blocking links to the story, and other social media users have reported being unable to share the file through their Google Drive accounts (although I was able to share it, at least between my two personal accounts). Neither company responded to our requests for comment as of press time. We also asked Box, Apple, Dropbox and Microsoft if they restricted the document, but no one responded before we published this story.
