Epstein

Does the Department of Justice library of Epstein investigation documents include Document "DOJ-2024-EF-7721" or any documents discussing "Medical regeneration technology" or "MedBeds" or "PROJECT MEDBIRTH"? No, that's not true: The online library of released files from its investigations of the now-dead sex trafficker doesn't include that document ID number. Searching for those phrases without the file number yields zero matches.…

Was a bearded Jeffrey Epstein photographed walking in Tel Aviv, Israel in 2026? No, that's not true: Jeffrey Epstein died in 2019. The image is AI-generated. Some versions of the image circulating on social media have been cropped, but the full-size image shows the Gemini AI Sparkle watermark in the lower right corner. Two cropped versions of the fake image…

Did U.S. Representative Thomas Massie say he obtained a flash drive containing the original versions of all Epstein files? No, that's not true: In an email to Lead Stories, Massie denied that. Lead Stories found no evidence supporting social media posts making the claim that Massie had such a flash drive. The claim appeared in a post (archived here) published…

Is a viral image showing Mark Zuckerberg, Reid Hoffman and Jeffrey Epstein eating sushi together a real photograph? No, that's not true: The image originated on an X account that says it posts "high quality AI videos and memes" to expose "dumb" people. According to Google's Gemini tool the image contained a SynthID watermark, indicating it was made with AI.…

Is a photo that shows Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer smiling and dining with Jeffrey Epstein legitimate? No, that's not true: The image was created by an artificial intelligence tool, according to several AI-generated content detectors. Google's Gemini detected a SynthID watermark embedded in the image indicating that all or part of it was created or edited with Google AI.…

Does a real photo show Melania Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell posing with three young women whose faces have been redacted? No, that's not true: This fake photo was made to look like a Polaroid photo from 1998. The high resolution fake image was featured as a clickbait thumbnail for a YouTube video, with black redactions as if it originated from…

Did the Department of Justice database correctly render the contents of a Jan. 17, 2013 email to Jeffrey Epstein when it turned the email's words into "New Brazilian just arrived, sexy and cute, =9yo"? No, that's not true: The original email said "19yo". The = sign is one of several substitution errors that arise from optical character recognition scanning, PDF…

Did the Epstein files contain an email discussing the beginning of World War III, scheduled to start on Feb. 8, 2026, as a viral image implied? No, that's not true: No email with the phrases "ww3" and "investmentt opp (nuclear)" could be located on the website of the Department of Justice, as of this writing. Lead Stories found a file…

Is a photo that shows Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein with young girls and boys authentic and part of the Department of Justice's publicly released Epstein files? No, that's not true: The image shows clear signs of being created by AI. The photo has not been released in the Department of Justice Epstein files as of the publication date of…

Does a photo of Nigel Farage together with Jeffrey Epstein show that the two men were acquainted? No, that's not true: This image is fake. Although made to look like a photo taken with a flash, there is no evidence this is a real photo which existed before Feb. 3, 2026. Nigel Farage has stated that he never met Epstein.…