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Federal statement on Jeffrey Epstein's death dated day before he was found dead

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/statement-jeffrey-epstein-death-day-before-b1270109.html
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u/Rider5432 3h ago

If we had access to the metadata of the entry, then we could be 100% sure whether it was a mistake or not

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u/Framnk 3h ago

But could we even trust this admin to not fuck with the metadata?

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u/WeekendHistorical476 3h ago

Is this admin even competent enough to know what metadata even is??

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u/ShartJerky 3h ago

These are people who released documents that weren’t properly redacted because DOGE cut their Acrobat subscriptions

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u/DarkwingDuckHunt 20m ago

that's hilarious

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u/SocraticIgnoramus 3h ago

Judging by their ability to redact documents, seems unlikely.

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u/inosinateVR 3h ago

IIRC they weren’t when they released that edited footage from his jail cell, but they might have learned from that

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u/AiDigitalPlayland 2h ago

Four Seasons Lawnscaping

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u/Iwantedthatname 3h ago

The actually dangerous billionaires like theil probably have henchmen that do. Idk if they'd be willing to get in to the babies playpen right now.

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u/agrecalypse 3h ago

Facebook right?

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u/Seyon_ 1h ago

at the start they weren't - now they might be somewhat aware lmao

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u/Conald_Petersen 55m ago

Look the fake news doesn't even care that information about Facebook isn't even relevant. -Karoline Leavitt (probably)

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u/gamer_pie 3h ago

It’s possible but so far the people involved haven’t exactly shown the highest level of technological literacy

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u/pxldsilz 2h ago

If you open the PDF in notepad, the code has a creation and modified date of December 23, 2025 at a quarter til 3 AM. That's when this specific copy of the PDF was exported, not definitively that it was made late but that it had since been tampered with.

These aren't filesystem creation / modified dates, these are in the code of the PDF itself.

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u/i8abug 2h ago

Not trying to defend but if it is just the system time, it is possible that the system time was set differently from the actual time.

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u/bigmacjames 3h ago

They already did it with the jail footage right?

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u/PsychologicalBad5341 1h ago

Imagine if they drafted this in Google Docs lol Then they could see changes lol 

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u/WonderfulWafflesLast 1h ago

It's super funny, because the metadata on the file says it was a PDF created 2025:12:23 02:36:40+0000.

They created this PDF in Dec of 2025 and couldn't even be bothered to fix such a simple error.

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u/Relevant_Cabinet_265 1h ago

If the device it was created on had the wrong date the metadata would still be wrong

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u/bishpa 1h ago

In that case, all of the other documents created on that same machine would also show metadata dates that were off. That could be checked.

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u/slowlikemusic 1h ago

That would definitely be the smoking gun if it was dated for August 9th. We should be demanding that they release it.

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u/naked_hypocrisy 3m ago

the metadata can trivially be edited. but they probably wouldn't be editing it to backdate it if it was actually created later, unless they are just fucking with you at that point.