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Please tell me some of these things are made up-TW Epstein

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Needtorunawayfromitall · 06/02/2026 21:44

I’m feeling really disturbed.

Know some info about the Ef, but stopping myself delving into it as I know I won’t be able to cope with it.
Was scrolling Instagram and heard horrible childrens screaming on a video, it was dark and I quickly went off it. I can’t stop thinking about it and just feel so distraught and really strange
Is some of it all made up? How can that be being shown and nothing being done about it??!
Lay in bed next to my peacefully sleeping 7 year old and just crying for those poor kids.
Feel like I can’t trust men also, is anyone else feeling similar? Think I need to delete my Sm accounts for a while.

How do we even begin to cope with all this mentally

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Puppylucky · 07/02/2026 11:45

NotMajorTom · 07/02/2026 11:06

How many of those genuine victims claim babies were being eaten, people were being murdered?

Thank you - that is exactly my point. As I stated there is clear evidence and testimony of awful things that did happen but if we spiral off into some Gothic horror tale fed by the net, then we are in danger of obscuring the truth. If these extreme claims are never proved (and they won't be) then it opens the door for people to deny that anything untoward at all happened - don't you see that ?

FMLGFastMovingLuxuryGoods · 07/02/2026 11:46

NotMajorTom · 07/02/2026 11:03

Evidence of possible code words is not evidence for the pizza gate claims. That’s the problem with actual evidence. You can’t use it to extrapolate

It’s not hard evidence but only a true dummy would think they were talking about pizza

How about we use the theory of Occam’s Razor and accept that emails about people coming to what we know for a fact is a pedophile island, are pedophiles looking to have sex with children.

This is MN not a police task force room, we can speculate on the obvious without needing court-level proof of evidence

TofuTuesday · 07/02/2026 11:50

Is there a way to read the whole thing (I know it’s massive) or start somewhere rather than think of words and search them?

FrothyCothy · 07/02/2026 14:05

TofuTuesday · 07/02/2026 11:50

Is there a way to read the whole thing (I know it’s massive) or start somewhere rather than think of words and search them?

I think someone has turned it all into like a gmail file so you can read them in order

Monochroming · 07/02/2026 14:29

I have no idea whether the video you came across was real or fake, but you better believe it does happen. In Epstein's realm, I don't know.

What I came to say was I came off social media a few years ago for this very reason. I started going down rabbit holes which lead to more and more sinister content. And then AI became more widely used which obscured reality from fake and I had enough. I was becoming more disturbed by what I was seeing that I made the choice to remove SM from my life.

Shadowdax16 · 07/02/2026 14:37

Puppylucky · 07/02/2026 11:45

Thank you - that is exactly my point. As I stated there is clear evidence and testimony of awful things that did happen but if we spiral off into some Gothic horror tale fed by the net, then we are in danger of obscuring the truth. If these extreme claims are never proved (and they won't be) then it opens the door for people to deny that anything untoward at all happened - don't you see that ?

Absolutely this. The truth is bad enough, it doesn’t need fabrication or embellishment.

placemats · 07/02/2026 18:32

Needtorunawayfromitall · 06/02/2026 21:47

The video? How do you know and why the hell would someone make that up?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/06/deepfake-taking-place-on-an-industrial-scale-study-finds

What's disturbing about this is faking grandchildren calling for help. These are nasty people. You think Epstein was bad, and he was disgusting, think again.

Deepfake fraud taking place on an industrial scale, study finds

AI content for scams can be targeted at individuals and ‘produced by pretty much anybody’, researchers say

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/06/deepfake-taking-place-on-an-industrial-scale-study-finds

peanutbuttertoasty · 07/02/2026 18:35

What? They’re not mutually exclusive 🤦🏼‍♀️ And yes, abusing actual children is of course worse than making fake videos (if you insist on comparing)

TiredofLDN · 07/02/2026 18:40

There are no images or videos of CSA that have been released through the Epstein files. The DoJ would be breaking the law by distributing images/videos of CSA if they did so. The rules around this are so strict that CSA content is not copied to share with attorneys etc for trials.

The DoJ are at best incompetent - their redactions leave a lot to be desired, and the reasons they are so poor are open to interpretation- but they are not uploading videos of CSA.

If you have seen something on instagram you think may be images or videos of child abuse please report them.

placemats · 07/02/2026 18:42

peanutbuttertoasty · 07/02/2026 18:35

What? They’re not mutually exclusive 🤦🏼‍♀️ And yes, abusing actual children is of course worse than making fake videos (if you insist on comparing)

It's what he would have been into had he not been caught.

I absolutely support those young girls who were trafficked and sexually abused.

Next up is the other end of the scale, Grandparents, who are easy game for scamming, especially when it comes to their grandchildren - the voice calls are realistic and relate to abuse.

Barnbrack · 07/02/2026 18:49

I'm Irish and Catholic.

I read it all with incredulity, surely not, surely this couldn't happen and no one be held to account...

Then I remembered all the SA of altar boys, of women in magdelen laundries, of babies sold to rich americans for profit, of babies buried illegally in Tuam and I realised actually, anywhere that men amass power women and children seem to suffer.

Is it any more far fetched than Ireland 1950-1989?

NotMajorTom · 07/02/2026 18:55

FrootyCider · 07/02/2026 11:13

I was quoting a poster who said there is no evidence of children being SA. You know what, I'll retract the babies part. There's no evidence of babies people, don't worry! It was just young girls being raped! Who cares about them?

And you know what - I guess it is hard to believe that an international cabal of billionaires who bought and sold young girls would go so far as murder. Leave those peadophiles alone! Ignore the parts of the files which implicate them in murder, everyone. That is just farfetched.

Sorry. I concede.

Don’t be fucking ridiculous. Questioning the lack of evidence for the wildly extreme claims is absolutely not saying I don’t care about the genuine victims.

and you know that!

Guerlainade · 07/02/2026 19:04

Pizza can be a reference to rough sex or group sex
Cream or cream cheese usually a reference to methamphetamine. Used in sex to heighten the experience/chem sex.

So yes code words

I truly hope that everyone involved in all of this gets bought to trial & spends the rest of their life in jail or the death penalty if it is proved murders have been committed.

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