Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy theories took over the internet this weekend. Are we officially in a new post-truth era, where no one bothers to ask questions before jumping to conclusions?
into the government’s mishandling of his 2007 sexual abuse conviction bringing it to the mainstream. What was different this weekend was who was promoting them. Public figures from Joe Scarborough to former Senator Claire McCaskill toreporter Carol Leonnig, who questioned the suicide narrative by tweeting that sources had described him as “being in good spirits in recent days,” took their turn poking holes in the official narrative.
It was as if, a friend later told me, everyone who followed the deaths on social media was being radicalized at the same time, his death proving a testament to the power of bipartisanship in the most embarrassing possible way. “It’s like we’re all being Jeffpilled,” he said, a reference to “red-pilling,” or the term men on the far-right use to describe the process of their radicalization.
Of course, it’s not particularly novel to note that in the absence of traditional gatekeepers, social media creates the ideal conditions for misinformation to thrive; nor is it a new observation that the platforms play a large role in boosting it.
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