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riversedge

(77,706 posts)
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 07:05 PM Sep 2

🚨🇺🇸 EPSTEIN FILES RELEASED IN DELIBERATELY DIFFICULT FORMAT: 33,295 INDIVIDUAL IMAGE FILES

whow. I just saw this. and have not had time to look at any of it.


Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal
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🚨🇺🇸 EPSTEIN FILES RELEASED IN DELIBERATELY DIFFICULT FORMAT: 33,295 INDIVIDUAL IMAGE FILES

Instead of releasing the Epstein documents as searchable PDFs, the House Oversight Committee uploaded every single page as an individual image file, making it nearly impossible to search or analyze efficiently.

The 33,295 pages are displayed as separate image files rather than consolidated, searchable documents.

Democrats claim the vast majority of documents have already been released publicly and only 3% contain new information.

The committee has not explained why they chose this cumbersome format over standard PDF release.

Critics argue this isn't transparency but deliberate obfuscation, forcing researchers and journalists to manually review over 33,000 individual images rather than using basic search functions.

The release format makes it exponentially harder to identify connections, search for specific names, or analyze patterns across the documents.

Source: NYT @patel_patriot


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🚨🇺🇸 EPSTEIN FILES RELEASED IN DELIBERATELY DIFFICULT FORMAT: 33,295 INDIVIDUAL IMAGE FILES (Original Post) riversedge Sep 2 OP
Fuck these people. I am going to file my taxes as .png files. rzemanfl Sep 2 #1
I guarantee you someone is downloading then converting them misanthrope Sep 2 #2
Pretty easy to convert to PDF with optical character recognition Quanta Sep 2 #6
Gee, do you think Trump is in these files? Emile Sep 2 #3
Is this the real Epstein files that Bondi had on her desk? senseandsensibility Sep 2 #4
Very far from everything SamuelTheThird Sep 2 #7
Conservatives protecting their orange Jesus. republianmushroom Sep 2 #5
Those image files can be ocr'd in 8 minutes flat Oopsie Daisy Sep 2 #8
AI can sift through that shit in seconds. ecstatic Sep 2 #9

misanthrope

(9,140 posts)
2. I guarantee you someone is downloading then converting them
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 07:08 PM
Sep 2

One would imagine we had some who anticipated this.

Quanta

(242 posts)
6. Pretty easy to convert to PDF with optical character recognition
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 07:25 PM
Sep 2

But still a long and cumbersome process with that many files. Obvious obfuscation indeed.

senseandsensibility

(23,778 posts)
4. Is this the real Epstein files that Bondi had on her desk?
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 07:13 PM
Sep 2

I mean is it everything, even if it is impossible to search?

ecstatic

(34,928 posts)
9. AI can sift through that shit in seconds.
Tue Sep 2, 2025, 07:47 PM
Sep 2

Then again, there are times when Gemini gets confused when it comes to image to text translation. But I assume chatGPT does a better job.

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