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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Wait is there proof of that now?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I'm a couple days late, but yeah, it was pretty clearly edited based on the metadata.

Working with two independent video forensics experts, WIRED examined the 21-gigabyte files released by the DOJ. Using a metadata tool, reporters analyzed both Exchangeable Image File Format (EXIF) and Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP) data to identify signs of postprocessing.

The “raw” file shows clear signs of having been processed using an Adobe product, most likely Premiere, based on metadata that specifically references file extensions used by the video editing software. According to experts, Adobe software, including Premiere and Photoshop, leaves traces in exported files, often embedding metadata that logs which assets were used and what actions were taken during editing. In this case, the metadata indicates the file was saved at least four times over a 23-minute span on May 23, 2025, by a Windows user account called “MJCOLE~1.” The metadata does not show whether the footage was modified before each time it was saved.

The embedded data suggest the video is not a continuous, unaltered export from a surveillance system, but a composite assembled from at least two separate MP4 files. The metadata includes references to Premiere project files and two specific source clips—2025-05-22 21-12-48.mp4 and 2025-05-22 16-35-21.mp4. These entries appear under a metadata section labeled “Ingredients,” part of Adobe’s internal schema for tracking source material used in edited exports. The metadata does not make clear where in the video the two clips were spliced together.

Further investigation suggests that almost three minutes of the video could be missing though the authors concede that the missing minutes may have been overlap between the two files that were stitched together.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well there's and entire minute missing, and the video was released with Adobe Premiere metadata....

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I read that wasn’t even epsteins cell

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The video shows a totally different cell than the original news pictures yeah.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

So what was the point of it? And why does it matter if was edited?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It matters because that missing minute is when he actually died. One minute he's alive, the next he's dead.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean if it’s not even his cell, what’s the point of the video

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The usual: buffoonish attempts at distraction.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I completely agree. My confusion is with the people who are being critical of the coverup still seem to be missing the point that the video is irrelevant in the first place.

The video may as well have been of Disney world. I don’t know why anyone cares about the edit and I don’t believe all the people talking about the edit are complicit in the coverup.

[–] al_Kaholic 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah the only explanation is you're on the video killing Epstein. Have fun in prison why does the truth matter?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m saying if the video isn’t even of his cell, what’s the point of the video and if it’s edit? Who cares about some random cell?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You can’t be that fucking oblivious.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think you’re not understanding what I’m saying. You’re rhetoric is ironic.

In case you’ve been in a box, no one is really talking about this point. They are more concerned about the video being edited rather than completely irrelevant.

The point I am making, which seems to be difficult for people to interpret even they they are calling me stupid, is if the video isn’t even irrelevant why does any even care that it is edited. And secondly, why is there no articles pointing out how misleading the video is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What rhetoric?

I think you’re not understanding a blatant attempt at an obvious cover-up. It matters because we are being openly lied to by the government.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Basically what happened is that they released a video of the wrong cell and then removed a minute from that video in order to confuse people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Thanks, captain obvious.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you that fucking oblivious to your own rhetoric? You just said

you can’t be that fucking oblivious

It’s obvious it’s a cover up. The assessment of the coverup is confusing. I’ve already stated why I find other people’s assessment of the coverup confusing. I shouldn’t have to repeat it again while being called oblivious

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You don't know what rhetoric means.

And apparently, yeah, you are that oblivious. It’s not that confusing, like, at all. Politicians are lying and making shit up because most of them are on Epstein’s list of clients.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Language that is elaborate, pretentious, insincere, or intellectually vacuous.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Ok. Now explain how that pertains to what I was saying.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

They took money meant for emergency infrastructure and checks notes gave it to cops.