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Investigations and document releases related to Epstein and alleged associations with prominent individuals, without confirmed FBI interview logs prior to 2016
The publicly released files contain numerous references to , but there is no single, official tally in the reporting; independent counts and news stories describe mentions ranging from “multiple” or “...
Major fact‑checking organizations have responded to viral Epstein‑related audio by treating clips as unverified until subjected to forensic analysis, by flagging portions identified as AI‑generated, a...
Multiple established fact‑checking outlets — notably Snopes and WRAL, with mentions of PolitiFact and Lead Stories in contemporaneous reporting — investigated viral claims about Erika Kirk (including ...
The claim that newly released files prove was killed in 2019 and “replaced by a clone” is traceable to sensational emails highlighted by outlets like , but mainstream reporting and ’s releases show th...
files do not constitute a legal or factual exoneration of ; they are a vast, mixed archive that contains hundreds of references to him, many unverified tips, contemporaneous news clippings and redacte...
The newly released files contain hundreds of uses of the word “pizza,” which has reignited online -style claims, but there is scant public evidence that the specific names appearing near those “pizza”...
massive files release contained thousands of photographs and images that include framed pictures of children and some photographs showing Epstein in close physical proximity to minors and young-lookin...
of more than three million documents contains lurid allegations and repeated mentions of terms such as “cannibal” and “ritualistic sacrifice,” but the specific claim that a photographed scene of peopl...
The newly released -related and records include thousands of items that reference — ranging from emailed gossip and photos to a concentrated FBI spreadsheet cataloguing tips made to the agency’s Natio...
The released files include references to “,” scenario planning and modeling in correspondence tied to high‑profile figures, but the documents do not, on their face, prove a covert program to plan or d...
The ’s “original files” are a patchwork of case files, memos, interview reports, photographs and machine-readable databases that the Bureau either posts in its Library (“The Vault”) or that are transf...
No major, reputable U.S. news organizations have independently verified that Sascha (also spelled Sasha or Sascha) Riley submitted testimony or evidence to U.S. congressional committees; the available...
Conspiracy theories about public figures’ private lives spread through a combination of political signaling, social-media virality and technological amplification, and they are countered by journalism...