There is no evidence the footage was deceptively manipulated, but ambiguities around how the video was processed may further fuel conspiracy theories about Epstein’s death.

Metadata embedded in the video and analyzed by WIRED and independent video forensics experts shows that rather than being a direct export from the prison’s surveillance system, the footage was modified, likely using the professional editing tool Adobe Premiere Pro.

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  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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    12 hours ago

    I’m not surprised, and I’d still say it’s not an unlikely grand conspiracy if some rich guy paid a couple guards to kill him.

    • FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml
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      10 hours ago

      Americans talk about conspiracy as if its something that only happens in literature. Of all places

      • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        9 hours ago

        Americans tend to overuse conspiracy to mythologize so they can support theirvmasdive cognitive dissonance and/or feel like there’s a daddy in control of everything up to and apparentlybincluding the weather. Except tor the handful who are fucking sick if that shit and so used to dismissingbit out of hand.

        • wheezy@lemmy.ml
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          5 hours ago

          Saying “I don’t believe X conspiracy theory” is understandable. But saying you don’t believe in any “conspiracy theory”. Like, you think that the government just always tells the truth and doesn’t cover up anything?

          • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
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            4 hours ago

            I believe in conspiracies as a general concept, like the two guards, and I believe governments have classified programs. When it gets to a certain point where vast numbers of people are involved in covering up something huge perfectly, you run into the problem of everything being possible and nothing being falsifiable, though.

            In practice, people don’t believe in conspiracy theories because they honestly assess it’s the neatest way to explain the world, it’s because they get emotional satisfaction out of the community and the feeling that they know something which other people don’t. There’s psychology literature about it and everything.

            What I said is my goto answer when I suspect I’m about to be arguing about melting steel beams or whatever, because that’s just a waste of time.