Political actors and media on both the Left and Right are motivated to keep this story going, as it feeds popular anxieties about sinister elites exploiting the innocent with impunity. However, there has been too little scrutiny over the credibility of the claimants who have won millions in civil actions against the Epstein estate and corporations that engaged in legitimate business with the late financier. There has been even less scrutiny of sensation-seeking journalists who have inflated admittedly fictionalized (or later recanted) accounts into perceived fact. Below, we’ve linked you to a detailed critique of an influential journalist’s reporting on the case.
Doubts Surround Media Hype over Jeffrey Epstein
