Meta restricts access to the leaked JD Vance dossier on Threads, Instagram, and Facebook.

Meta is reportedly restricting links on Threads, Instagram, and Facebook that direct users to Ken Klippenstein’s newsletter, which contains a dossier on JD Vance allegedly obtained through an Iranian hack of the Trump campaign. Posts with these links are being removed, and links to PDFs of the document hosted on other platforms appear to be blocked. 

Meta spokesperson Dave Arnold told The Verge that the company’s policy prohibits content from hacked sources or leaked as part of foreign government operations aimed at influencing U.S. elections. According to Meta’s Community Standards, users are not allowed to share such materials. A Meta page on privacy violations also bars the sharing of nonpublic election-related information obtained from hacked sources.

People on Threads have reported that Meta has taken down posts containing links to the dossier. Links to the document hosted elsewhere, such as Scribd and Google Drive, are also reportedly being disabled. X (formerly Twitter) is also blocking links to the story, and users have noted difficulties in sharing the document via Google Drive, although some were able to do so privately between personal accounts. Companies such as Apple, Dropbox, and Microsoft have yet to respond to inquiries about whether they are restricting access to the document.