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[-] AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

Elon and his cohorts have been involved in 4chan since it was a cultural phenomenon back in the day. Not because he had some skin in the game, but because it probably felt good to know and disseminate information before the rest of the 4channers knew it. That boy is all about clout before anything else.

[-] jmsy@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago

whenever there is breaking news, I always pop over to 4chan. They have videos, images, witnesses, and statements before any mainstream media.

[-] atropa@piefed.social 5 points 4 hours ago

Is he dead ? Are you sure 🤔

[-] fodor@lemmy.zip 38 points 8 hours ago

Lol the FBI is worried that people might leak shit they're doing, so they gotta scare off Anonymous.

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 17 points 7 hours ago

Probably trying to find a way to sue 4chan.

[-] robocall@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Can we do a class action lawsuit?

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 4 hours ago

Slam dunk case too.

[-] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 62 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I’ve been getting the impression lately that 4chan has been a platform where the rich, or someone paid by them, uses snippets of truthful information baked into outlandish stories to obfuscate their ongoings behind a narrative of easily dismissible conspiracy. Like feeding the pigs carrots, so their shit smells of shit and carrots, and now everyone avoids carrots as a byproduct of it’s association with shit.

What are the odds this is just more of that? They may speak on Epstein’s death before it’s reported for credibility, then misuse that credibility to obfuscate the truth further. The FBI could have been in the dark, hence their investigation, but they could have also been steered away from making any conclusions on the matter.

[-] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 17 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Q was probably Steve Bannon working through Ron Watkins who was a useful idiot proxy. The point was to make talking about what Epstein and the gang were actually doing sound like crazy talk.

Remember: A way to poison the truth is to package it with 9 lies, and a way to hide a lie is to package it with 9 truths.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 43 points 8 hours ago

Ghislaine Maxwell was a /pol/ mod. That's all I need to know.

[-] osanna@lemmy.vg 4 points 3 hours ago

She was also allegedly /u/maxwellhill on Reddit

[-] monkeyjoe@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

"it's a containment board"

[-] dan69@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

Much more believable than the meeting btwn the two

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 5 hours ago

QANAON was started by Putin, and basically right wingers took with it and ran.

[-] jode@pawb.social 16 points 9 hours ago

Why do you think Elmo bought Twitter...

[-] Maeve@kbin.earth 20 points 8 hours ago

And certain accounts in certain places known to be Epstein accounts are mysteriously active...

[-] null@lemmy.org 133 points 13 hours ago

The newly released Epstein files show that the Justice Department tried to identify the 4Chan user behind the posts — but couldn't figure it out.

"Good luck, I'm behind 7 proxies."

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 30 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

classic

Reminder that the Sarah Palin hacker was caught because they included the web proxy url in their screenshots they shared.

Edit: it was 16 years ago so here's the Wikipedia article for additional context.

[-] obre@lemmy.world 70 points 12 hours ago
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[-] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 73 points 13 hours ago

Well 4chan had some deep ties with epstein. Epstein knew the founder and even got him to make a channel

[-] osanna@lemmy.vg 6 points 5 hours ago

who DIDN'T have deep ties with epstein? hell, even some palaeontologists got banned from dinocon because of their ties with epstein. Crazy shit.

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[-] voidsignal@lemmy.world 239 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

On one hand I'm happy this fuck is dead, and I hope he did suffer.

On the other hand, we all know he did not commit suicide and got killed by the Pedoresident following the playbook of his BFF putin to try to save his fat orange pedo ass

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 points 5 hours ago

he definitely got assassinated, giving how fast they tried to cover it up, and the news/congress politicinas(both DNC/GOP) dint want it to come to light

[-] sakuraba@lemmy.ml 12 points 9 hours ago

I hate when characters are killed off screen

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[-] gdog05@lemmy.world 169 points 16 hours ago

There's still the option that it was a faked death. That much wealth and power, if it could be done, that's who and when it would be done. I'm not giving it much credence without more evidence, but I've got no reason to think that it's not possible given the series of absurd happenings that morning.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 5 hours ago

the best place to hide is the country that orchestated it, israel.

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[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 28 points 12 hours ago

Epstein probably posted it himself

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 38 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

In https://lemmy.world/c/Epsteinfiles from 17 days ago:

https://lemmy.world/post/42921222?scrollToComments=true

There were two IP's associated with these comments.

107.77.223.177

and

172.58.139.162

One IP was responsible for all of the comments regarding medical information (which can be confirmed in part by the autopsy, also available unredacted (mostly) in the files(.

I tried to follow up on the FBI effort to get the cell data for both of these. As far as I can tell, the rPtND1Si post resolved to a new jersey IP (this is the AT&T customer), and the second resolved to a sprint customer (swam8WIF). If you look up the second IP, it resolved to the Chicago area (the sprint customer). The sprint response to the FBI record request stated that their system used "dynamic IP". Its not clear to me the FBI followed up on the sprint customer any further. My read was they couldnt get a location from that IP because of sprints internal system.

See here: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00133349.pdf for the original data.

[-] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 hours ago

Sounds like Epstein got the confidential-informant-who-gets-a-fake-identity treatment. From the sounds of the rumors, it wouldn't be the FBI either. Given it involves international parties, it would probably involve the CIA and Epstein would literally be protected by the Intelligence Identities Protection Act if his new identity were to be revealed, and at the highest classification of secrecy, so nobody involved in the operation probably even knows who they are providing support to.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

I mean the autopsy agrees with the statements in the 3 post 4chan thread, which was the first to claim epstein was dead. There was also a leak in some of the docs with a reporting reaching out to the FBI about a paramedic who leaked the situation via 4chan. So at least the FBI clearly thought that claim was credible.

The second 4chan claim, about the swapping out. This one is tough. I've dug around and I can't confirm that the subpoena records go anywhere. I can find the subpoena to 4chan and 4chans legal response. I can also find the subpoenas to T-mobile and I think Sprint, looking for the information on the IP addresses given by 4chans legal response. But I can't find the response from the telcoms to those subpoenas. Thats where the chain ends for me currently.

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