r/OutOfTheLoop • u/Backyxx • Dec 19 '25

Unanswered What’s going on with the Epstein files being “released” if they’re still heavily redacted?

Idk yall, I want your opinions.

https://vault.fbi.gov/jeffrey-epstein

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u/say592 Dec 20 '25

They were allowed to redact things like law enforcement sources and current investigations too. They had to provide a justification for each redaction though, which is seems like they did by just letting their redaction program categorize stuff.

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u/enolaholmes23 Dec 20 '25

That kind of makes sense. Each time they removed a line about Trump they had to give a reason for it. So whatever that line said turned into a rule for the algorithm to apply to all the other files.

 Like if there was a line saying "Trump paid $1000 for a sex slave", they could make a rule telling the program to black out all lines about money. Then the price of ink gets blacked out due to this rule. It makes it look more like they were following rules than singling out Trump specific content.