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.”
- Archive: http://archive.today/AIkL2
- Github: https://github.com/cfinke/EpsteIn
We need to be careful in how we view the latest batch from the files. They contain lots of names of people who were not involved in the least. Bilbo Baggins and Punxsutawney Phil are in there. Lots of celebrities are in there simply because they’re referenced in an email, while they had no contact with Epstein knowledge of what was happening.
And if we’re too aggressive in how we react to people’s names popping up in searches, it gives cover to those who were complicit.
One of the commenters on the site did point out that it’s a defamation lawsuit waiting to happen.
I don’t think I know anyone remotely rich enough for this to be a concern.
That’s the secondary use of the tool
If you’re not on the list you clearly lack connections and power and aren’t a good fit
This is the most LinkedInLunatic coded response ever
I think, not as a business professional but as a human being, that if this is something that concerns you then you are also the kind of person that doesn’t even want to be on LinkedIn.
Right? Bill Gates is in the epstein files a lot.
Motherfuckers…
My post about this tool got removed from the community for no reason.
the tool, called EpsteIn—as in, a mash up of Epstein and LinkedIn
A better mashup might have been “SteptIn”.
I’m sure my LinkedIn contacts could search the epstein files on their own without my help
