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Why are Epstein’s emails full of equals signs?

Photo collage of red lines connecting Jeffrey Epstein to Donald Trump, Melania Trump, and Ghislaine Maxwell, along with a UFO, lizard, and Bigfoot.

Many of the emails released by the Department of Justice from its investigation into Jeffrey Epstein are full of garbled symbols like:

Or:

The scrambled text is so ubiquitous that it’s spurred conspiracy theories that it could be some kind of code. But as believable as it might be that a cabal of elite sex traffickers would communicate in a secret language, the reality is probably more boring: The symbols are likely artifacts from the way the Department of Justice converted the emails to PDFs.

“The glyphs and symbols are probably some artifact of a poor conversion process,” said Chris Prom, professor and archivist at the University of Il …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/policy/879016/epstein-files-emails-text-errors-encoding

Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/policy/879016/epstein-files-emails-text-errors-encoding

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