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What 1.4M emails reveal about America's most notorious sex offender

https://www.economist.com/interactive/international/2026/02/12/inside-epsteins-network
33•doener•1h ago

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OgsyedIE•37m ago
Jack Blanchard in the Politico podcast (almost as good as Odd Lots if you're fine with listening to stuff at 2x speed on commutes) remarked that one of the most important aspects of the response to the publicization of the first 2% of the Epstein Files is that it may be a watershed moment where the better parts of citizen journalism have become completely competitive with institutional journalism, due heavily to the faster turnaround times of the former.

It's hard to see conventional pipelines doing a faster job of parsing scattered mentions of rare phrases like 'jerky' across a million documents than the competitive environment of individual entrepreneurialism could.

siavosh•28m ago
There’s also a lot of self censorship happening in the mass media.
hikkerl•24m ago
It's been this way for a while if you look in the right places.

Any time there's a shooting or terrorist attack, I know the MSM will be reporting "motive unknown" and info/photos about the perpetrator will be vague and biased. Go to 4chan and you'll immediately find their complete bio, life history, religious and political views, a download link to the manifesto, photos and videos, their mother's maiden name and their pet goldfish's birthday and favourite food. All of which the autists compiled by studying the shadow cast by a mole on the perp's left arm based on the angle of the sun at noon on Wednesday.

nofriend•23m ago
And which will frequently be completely wrong, but they will believe it absolutely because it fits with their political biases.
dash2•17m ago
… as well as the shooter’s posting history and maybe a link to the livestream?
OgsyedIE•10m ago
Even when the attacker is private about stuff on the day of it's fast. The Canadian one this week was not only identified, but had their entire reddit scraped and archived in a turnaround time of just 19 minutes after news as vague as "incident at this location" hit the trending tab.
64275488537•9m ago
Respectfully, you also said that "we now know" that taking the COVID19 vaccine could have killed you earlier today, which is completely false. I don't think you are getting your news from reliable sources, and I see this comment as further evidence of that. I'm sure there's lots of information on 4chan about the identity of mass shooters, and that some of it is accurate, but most of it is probably wild speculation, outright trolling, and mistaken identity. Like when Reddit pinned the Boston Marathon bombings on a series of innocent people who were standing on a rooftop or missing because they had killed themselves.
RajT88•23m ago
The amount of breathless conclusion jumping from citizen journalists has been completely bananas as well. I had to tell a friend of mine to take a break from it.

The level of tinfoil hat theories (example: cannibalism) which people are now taking as the truth off of which to build more theories is really something. The unfortunate thing is - in our current environment, the crazy speculation and knowingly dealing in just shit you made up seems to actually pay off when pressuring public officials.

I am glad the files were released. A lot of people have a lot of explaining to do. I don't actually think this ends up going anywhere, but we'll see.

dash2•18m ago
This, and also a lot of antisemitism seems to have been enabled.
blululu•22m ago
That's an interesting point in general. On this particular topic I would go so far as to say that the citizen journalists are far more than what professional journalists are producing. I would guess that this is more a function of the idiosyncrasies of this particular data source. Most journalists are experts in tracking down hearsay and getting specific people to talk. The house Epstein email releases are just a massive pile of open data where someone with a more data-centric background can walk in and apply their skills.
OgsyedIE•15m ago
Massive piles of documents, released erratically and possessing apparently random and sloppy redactions with inconsistent formatting rules are a common tactic in some corporate cases as well, since they intend to wear down opposing counsel through exploitation of reptile theory.

AFAICT it's not well considered by DoJ that this works roughly in proportion to the technical aptitude of opposing counsel. The public has excellent technical aptitude when motivated and none otherwise and this is clearly a situation of motivation.

chatmasta•16m ago
Hmm, maybe, but who’s really in control here?

1) The slow and steady institutional journalists who are reporting on the government

2) The fast and loose citizen journalists who are reporting on the government

3) The government who is saturating the attention of both of them while they look for something that exists in the 98% portion of unreleased documentation about government wrongdoing

I mean who’s the idiot? Maybe it’s the government interns who need to read 100% to release 2%.

mitchbob•33m ago
https://archive.ph/yk80x
rachel-ftw•13m ago
Doing god’s work over here.
siavosh•27m ago
dropsitenews has been doing much better reporting than most outlets.
thrance•11m ago
Not a single mention of Trump. Really fucking impressive journalism.
iterateoften•6m ago
Honestly I’ve been sick to my stomach these past few days. I wasn’t even looking for the files and saw some in my feed on Reddit.

Basically take the most sad and disturbing Eastern European horror and put it in email form.

I had to stop my Seinfeld rewatch because I saw one email were he just happened to be boating by and stopped by the island for lemonade.

The richest people and political elite were openly trading prices on children, leaving rave reviews on child services and how great that torture film was that was sent

Its sick

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