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The PDF document is a 271-page opposition research file on former President Donald Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio. But on Thursday, reporter Ken Klippenstein, who self-publishes on Substack after he left The Intercept this year, published one of the files. “If the document had been hacked by some ‘anonymous’ like hacker group, the news media would be all over it. As president, Trump authorized the assassination of military leader Qassem Soleimani. The Vance file appears to be the one Klippenstein hosts on his site.

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☆ Elon Musk talks a lot about free speech. But account suspensions on X have skyrocketed.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-26 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk purchased Twitter with a pledge to make it a bastion for free speech. AdvertisementA new "transparency report" from X might surprise anyone who has heard its owner, Elon Musk, talk about the importance of free speech. Three years after Musk took control of the company and rebranded it X, it has finally released a new transparency report. According to its transparency reports at the time, Twitter suspended almost 873,000 accounts in the last half of 2019. That number grew to about 1.3 million account suspensions in the latter half of 2021.

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☆ California Gov. Gavin Newsom failed to publicly disclose his SVB ties while lobbying for a bailout
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( Mattathias Schwartz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Gavin Newsom reportedly had substantial personal ties to Silicon Valley Bank. Newsom has not discussed his personal ties to SVB publicly. It is unclear whether he disclosed them to the White House or Treasury during his contacts with the administration over the weekend. Click did not respond to detailed questions about the Intercept's reporting on Newsom's SVB ties. Spokespeople for the White House and California Partners Project did not immediately return Insider's requests for comment.

☆ Video shows 8-car pileup after a Tesla allegedly using Full Self-Driving stopped in a highway tunnel
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Surveillance video shows a Tesla stopping in a San Francisco tunnel and the resulting eight-car pileup. The Tesla driver said at the time of the accident that he had been using the carmaker's Full Self-Driving software. The video from The Intercept reporter Ken Klippenstein shows the Tesla moving into the left lane with its blinker and quickly coming to a stop in front of another car. On the day of the pile-up, a witness to the scene, Shayna Kelly of San Francisco, told KTVU that she saw the Tesla abruptly swerving. A spokesperson for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) told Insider the agency had launched an investigation into the crash.

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