EpsteIn—as in, Epstein and LinkedIn—searches your connections on the social network for names that match those in the released files.

A new tool searches your LinkedIn connections for people who are mentioned in the Epstein files, just in case you don’t, understandably, want anything to do with them on the already deranged social network.

404 Media tested the tool, called EpsteIn—as in, a mash up of Epstein and LinkedIn—and it appears to work.

“I found myself wondering whether anyone had mapped Epstein’s network in the style of LinkedIn—how many people are 1st/2nd/3rd degree connections of Jeffrey Epstein?” Christopher Finke, the creator of the tool, told 404 Media in an email. “Smarter programmers than me have already built tools to visualize that, but I couldn’t find anything that would show the overlap between my network and his.”

  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    Also, every single name that gets released is a name that Trump was ok with releasing. From my pov, it just turns it into a more effective blackmail tool. He’s not afraid of what’s in the files. If it was going to ruin him, it would have already done so.

    Instead it just shows others who know they are in the files that a) he’s one of them (if they didn’t already know), b) that he can protect them, c) he isn’t protecting everyone in the files just because of point a.

    Hate to be realizing this, but I think everyone who thought the release of the Epstein files would help anything got played. Just like everyone who thought the Mueller investigation would threaten his first term or result in making a second term impossible.