AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib
A series of viral social media posts revealing the contents of a folder on Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) donors were removed by Elon Musk’s platform X on Tuesday.
Journalist Pablo Manriquez — who has recently contributed to The New Republic and Vanity Fair, among other outlets — shared the contents of a folder “full of briefing documents” on Cruz’s donors after it was left unattended, presumably by a staffer, in the Senate dining room.
The posts – which detailed Cruz’s purported wine and dine schedule with donors in Washington, D.C. and New York, and featured individual biographies of each of the donors – received thousands of likes before they were removed by Musk’s platform X, formerly known as Twitter, on Tuesday evening.
“That concludes the document dump,” read one of the few posts which X did not remove. “If you or someone you know has additional briefing docs for Cruz or any other dot gov, send em my way!”
While X claimed that the posts violated the platform’s rules, it did not go into detail about which specific rules were broken.
However, the uncensored documents photographed in the posts did show the dates, times, and addresses of Cruz’s meetings, including a private residence of one of Cruz’s donors.
According to X’s rules, users “may not publish or post other people’s private information (such as home phone number and address) without their express authorization and permission.”
