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The US DOJ releasing emails between tech industry notables and Jeffrey Epstein kicks off a renewed flurry of acrimonious social posts and lurid news coverage

The Department of Justice has released more than 3 million documents and photos related to Jeffrey Epstein.

Wired Brian Barrett

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  • NewsMax.com Newsmax Wires on x
    Epstein Bragged of ‘Wild’ Dinner With Zuckerberg, Hoffman
  • @adam3us Adam Back on x
    In 2014, during Blockstream's seed-round investor roadshow, the company was introduced to then MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito. Subsequently Blockstream met with Jeffrey Epstein, who was described at the time as a limited partner in Ito's fund. That fund later invested a minority
  • @elonmusk Elon Musk on x
    Nobody has fought harder for full release of the Epstein files and prosecutions of those who abused children more than I did, knowing full well that the legacy media, far-left propagandists and those who are actually guilty would: 1.  Admit nothing 2.  Deny everything 3.  Make co…
  • @elonmusk Elon Musk on x
    @grok ... If I actually wanted to spend my time partying with young women, it would be trivial for me to do so without the help of a creepy loser like Epstein and I would still have 99% of my mind available to think about other things. But I don't.
  • @matthewstoller Matt Stoller on x
    “Though concretely, don't say dumb things in email. That is always a pain in the ass.” That's Steve Sinosfky to Apple on how to avoid antitrust liability. I was kidding about how the consumer welfare standard is in the Epstein Files, but maybe I wasn't?
  • @anthon7yandrews AnthonyAndrews on x
    In August 2nd, 2016 Epstein mentioned having dinner that night with Musk, Thiel, and Zuckerberg. Remember how they were all at Trump's 2025 inauguration front and center? Repost is more valuable than likes and reaches more eyes, please do so. [image]
  • @mttgrmm Matt Grimm on x
    At least when they discuss the Epstein Files on All-In this week, for the first time ever, @Jason will be the most informed person there.
  • @tomwarren Tom Warren on x
    Microsoft's former Windows 8 boss, Steven Sinofsky, recruited Epstein to help negotiate his Microsoft exit. Epstein files include confidential emails about the Surface RT failure, Sinofsky meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook, and more. Full details here 👇 https://www.theverge.com/...
  • @sachalouise Sacha Haworth on x
    Mark Zuckerberg was having lunch with Epstein in 2015, 7 years after Epstein was convicted by a Florida state court of procuring a child for prostitution and of soliciting a prostitute this is the guy who now makes AI companion bots that sext with kids [image]
  • @jasonbassler1 Jason Bassler on x
    Before this latest drop, the Thiel/Epstein connection was murky at best. Now we've got emails that read like two old friends riffing on Bitcoin and surveillance. When we said Epstein's friends are building the architecture of your digital prison, we weren't joking. [image]
  • @creatine_cycle Atlas on x
    >no epstein list >asian wife >matching his and hers porsches >jiu-jitsu >smokes meats post-economic 5'7 wife guys will inherit the earth
  • @burkehenryt Henry Burke on x
    This might be the first time we've learned what Larry Summers' going rate was for his countless advisory positions. At 1:06, Epstein tells Barack “Andreessen Horowitz. They pay Larry a million dollars a year. Just to advise them,” advising the PM to get a similar fake job
  • @brendaneich @brendaneich on x
    This was happening when I was still at Mozilla, but I had no idea. https://www.justice.gov/... [image]
  • @nicucrypto Nicu on x
    Epstein emails show someone sending a note in Oct 2017 about a “smart, Russian blockchain enthusiast” saying he can be “better than Vitalik if he focused on tech not money” $LINK ico was Sep 2017, one month prior to this email. Sergey is from Russia and $LINK is tech not money.
  • @scottgshore @scottgshore on x
    Oi, Epstein's Emails Just Dropped - And Some Big Names Pop up WFitzgerald, the Tether banking guy, pops up from 2005 to 2012. Back in '05 he wanted nothing to do with Epstein, but by 2012 they're friendly.. Elon Musk shows up too, Epstein inviting him to parties and trips... [ima…
  • @s_lutz95 Sander Lutz on x
    Jeffrey Epstein was an early investor in Coinbase. Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam appears to have been personally aware and supportive of the convicted sex offender's multi-million dollar investment in the company, in 2014. Details are in the latest batch of Epstein files from
  • @meidastouch @meidastouch on x
    Epstein to Peter Thiel - August 2016: “donalds new york supporters concerned, . we can talk if you like. he cannot release his tax returns so what are his options?” https://www.justice.gov/... [image]
  • @l0lal33tz @l0lal33tz on x
    While everybody's worried about what bitcoin companies took $ from Epstein, there seem to be only two regular Bitcoin Core contributors who actively worked with Epstein. One of them is Bryan Bishop, and his work with Epstein seems to have been mostly unrelated to btc. Instead, [i…
  • @__amoxicillin_ @__amoxicillin_ on x
    BIG BREAKING 🚨 Mark Zuckerberg is in the Epstein Files. Yes. Zuck is in the files. [image]
  • @kanekoathegreat @kanekoathegreat on x
    1/ Reid Hoffman introduced Jeffrey Epstein to Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk In May 2014, Jeffrey Epstein emailed his assistant: “Ask Reid Hoffman's secretary for Thiel's phone number as we were supposed to meet in New York on Monday.”  In July 2015, Hoffman arranged…
  • @_jeremyflores Jeremy Flores on x
    Divesh Makan, founding partner of iconiq (Zuckerberg's multi family office with clients such as Dustin Moskovitz, Sean Parker, Sheryl Sandberg, Jack Dorsey, Ashton Kutcher, etc etc), knew Epstein (!) [image]
  • @samson143vr Samson Egilman on x
    Epstein to Zuckerberg: “FYI Thiel .might come to the ranch this weekend , you are welcome as well. It's a pretty unusual and private place.” [image]
  • @romy_holland Romy on x
    people love to hate on zuck but he was doing stuff like commissioning a 7' statue of his beloved wife, not secretly slipping her antibiotics for the chlamydia he picked up on epstein island. [image]
  • @prem_thakker Prem Thakker on x
    Last year, Elon Musk said Jeffrey Epstein tried to get him to go to his island but he “REFUSED.” New emails show Elon Musk actively asking Epstein “what day/night will be the wildest party on =our island?” And the next year, Musk asked again if there was a “good time to visit.” […
  • @elonmusk Elon Musk on x
    This is how I knew so long ago that Reid Hoffman went to Epstein's island. Epstein used Reid being there to try to get me to go, not realizing that it would have the opposite effect 😂 [image]
  • @odddiligence @odddiligence on x
    Epstein potentially creating today's SPAC structure explains a lot of things [image]
  • @zacbowden Zac Bowden on x
    The Epstein files includes emails from former Windows boss Steven Sinofsky, one of which includes a forwarded email chain that reveals how Microsoft's SLT handled Surface RT's monumental failure in 2012. “Surface is about to catastrophically fail in a very public way,” Sinofsky […
  • @bob_burrough Bob Burrough on x
    Tim Cook dished on Scott Forstall to Jeffrey Epstein. [image]
  • @jezcorden Jez on x
    “Steven Sinofsky sought advice from Jeffrey Epstein in newly released Epstein files, revealing that the former Windows head shared confidential Microsoft emails with the disgraced financier in 2012-2013.” https://www.windowscentral.com/ ... 👇
  • @peterjukes Peter Jukes on x
    Looks like Surkov's protégée Masha Drokova was much closer to Epstein than previously reported, and plugged into the Palantir/Thiel network https://subscribe.bylinetimes.com/ ... [image]
  • @amittaylor Amit Taylor on x
    Tech people mentioned most in the Epstein files (so far) [image]
  • @medus4_cdc @medus4_cdc on x
    So, Epstein attended Defcon, and employed both Vincenzo Iozzo ( @_snagg ) and Paul “Pablos” Holman. Whole lot of damning evidence on a lot of tech people in those files. Fucking gross
  • @amritwt Amrit on x
    the only major tech billionaire that wasn't in the epstein files [picture of Steve jobs]
  • @rmac18 Ryan Mac on x
    “I knew another tech billionaire went to Epstein Island because Epstein told me while I was emailing back and forth with him to find a time to hang out” is a bold thing to put out into the world. [image]
  • @jdcocchiarella Jack Cocchiarella on x
    Really weird how all the tech guys in the Epstein files became Trump supporters right before he had the power to hide the Epstein files... [image]
  • @palmerluckey Palmer Luckey on x
    . @Jason said 10+ times that he only knew Epstein in the 90s.  He was actually helping Epstein through the 2000s and 2010s, even after the child sex trafficking conviction.  Man starts VR company, donates to Trump: “Total moron, no moral compass!”  Man rapes children: “hey pal!”
  • @sf_mills Emily Mills on x
    Jeffery Epstein: “Numbers? Contacts?” Jason Calacanis: “Getting them today for you.” [image]
  • @alojoh @alojoh on x
    If the All-In pod hosts—the two Davids and Chamath—aren't mounting a full-throated defense of Jason, it suggests tacit agreement with Palmer. Period. @theallinpod @DavidSacks @friedberg @chamath @Jason @PalmerLuckey https://x.com/...
  • @benmullin Ben Mullin on x
    Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share...expenses for the Gawker suit.” This was sent the day after @RMac18 and @mattdrange reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker. …
  • @dschlopesisback @dschlopesisback on x
    Reid Hoffman = The Fatty at LinkedIn 😂 [image]
  • @scobleizer Robert Scoble on x
    “Hey dad, did you know you are in the Epstein files,” my son Ryan just now. He read each mention. And showed them to me. The mentions just quoted my blog. I was on Reid Hoffman's plane, long ago before he started LinkedIn. And worked for Bill Gates. And gave a ride once to
  • @maddenifico Bill Madden on x
    Referring to Elon Musk as “the surprise breakout star of the Epstein files” is this weekend's winning tweet. 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆😂🤣👇 [image]
  • @dschlopesisback @dschlopesisback on x
    You are mentioned 2,600 times in the Epstein files you absolute fatass piece of shit.
  • @vladtheinflator Darth Powell on x
    There will be fables written about the revenge Palmer will take on Jason [image]
  • @gilduran76 Gil Duran on x
    Reminder: Peter Thiel wrote an op-ed in Jan 2025 that said Trump's return would reveal “secrets” and hinted that Epstein might have been murdered. We've certainly learned “truth” about Trump/Thiel ties to Epstein. Odd thing for the world's foremost Antichrist enthusiast to write …
  • @prem_thakker Prem Thakker on x
    Seems like big news that the biggest Republican donor in 2024 repeatedly made plans to visit Epstein's island. Especially when you recall the various abuse allegations he faces, or how his website has been mass generating sexual content, including of kids.https://zeteo.com/...
  • @litcapital @litcapital on x
    So there's this guy Palmer Luckey, who absolutely HATES this guy Jason Calacanis, he was like the 3rd or 4th investor in Uber btw, and he was apparently emailing with Epstein so Palmer was decimating him on Twitter this weekend. It's so fuckin crazy lmaoooo... anyway, I'm Jeff [i…
  • @swannmarcus89 Swann Marcus on x
    Elon Musk demanding the release of the Epstein files while apparently not remembering Epstein once emailed him “Do you think I'm retarded? There is no one over 25 and all very cute” five years after Epstein's first sex conviction is the greatest self-own ever
  • @reidhoffman Reid Hoffman on x
    Give us a break: If you cared about the victims as you say, you'd stop making false accusations to cover your ass and start using your $220m of influence with President Trump to get justice for the victims.  Instead, you're focused on comparing my visit fundraising for MIT to you…
  • @kanekoathegreat @kanekoathegreat on x
    🚨BREAKING: Newly released Jeffrey Epstein emails reveal LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman discussing visits to Epstein's private island, New Mexico ranch, and New York apartment. “Reid will spend the night at 71st” “Reid Hoffman will go to the ranch for the weekend” “Jeffrey will [im…
  • @jason @jason on x
    To remind folks: I met Epstein in the late 90s/early 2000s via my book agent at the TED conference.  I was in my 20s.  There were hundreds of folks at TED and those dinners.  I barely knew him, but he was everywhere, relentlessly networking with everyone in science, finance, tech…
  • @boringbiz_ @boringbiz_ on x
    My main lesson from Palmer Lucky is that I dont hate hard enough When it comes to Jason, this man is truly a generational hater [image]
  • @fredlambert Fred Lambert on x
    It's funny that Elon fans right now have to simultaneously believe he is such a genius that he will birth a utopia of “amazing abundance” and also such an idiot that he somehow doesn't know what the “wildest parties” thrown by a convicted pedophile are.
  • @morganbarrettx Morgan Barrett on x
    Before taking money from a VC you should ask them who they think the next Epstein is If they don't have a good answer it's a red flag that they're actually not that connected
  • @chrisjbakke Chris Bakke on x
    I hope it's perfectly clear that Reid Hoffman and Bill Gates are disgusting, horrible people. Starting LinkedIn? Acquiring it? Both sick in the head.
  • @h_adventurer @h_adventurer on x
    Peter Thiel not worried about the negative press around him and Epstein. They have dozens and dozens of emails discussing meetings on the Island & the Ranch. Thiel was well aware of Epsteins underage connections [image]
  • @miyaspokeofthis @miyaspokeofthis on x
    EFTA00995634.pdf From: Masha Drokova To: jeevacation@gmail.com I've found super smart and young blockchain enthusiast in Russia. He can be better than Vitalik Buterin if he focuses on technology (money are very distracting in this space). [image]
  • @afpost AF Post on x
    Emails reportedly from Jeffrey Epstein's files show tech investor, Jason Calacanis, seemingly well acquainted with Epstein. Calacanis is famous for running a tech media website, eventually making a successful investment into Uber before becoming a VC. On the All-In Podcast, [imag…
  • @coryswan @coryswan on x
    If you think rich tech guys and crypto scammers aren't throwing parties for underage twinks in eastern european castles, you're probably shocked by the Epstein emails.
  • @evan_ss6 @evan_ss6 on x
    Find you a girl who loves you as much as @PalmerLuckey hates @jason [image]
  • @bryce Bryce Roberts on x
    Turns out most tech heroes are creeps
  • @devahaz Deva Hazarika on x
    I've always been so curious when a VC or fund materializes out of nowhere and is all of a sudden all over the place, yet nobody I know in a couple decades in the industry has any idea about where they came from. Turns out they're all just Chinese or Russian money spies!
  • @actingliketommy @actingliketommy on x
    This seemingly innocuous line in the Elon emails holds a lot of the Epstein story. Sending the “heli” for people. Because FAA Part 91 allows private, non-commercial helicopters to move passengers with no records. No manifests or passenger lists. Epstein Island and Zorro Ranch [im…
  • @gregbagwell Greg Bagwell on x
    Epstein-Bannon-Thiel-Trump-Farage- Putin. Was it a deliberate collapse of international order, a push for untraceable finance, or a Russian operation? They were all mutually beneficial, but my money's on Putin as the puppet master. It's time for a full independent investigation. …
  • @mattyglesias Matthew Yglesias on x
    Guy who wants nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein 😂😂 [image]
  • @autismcapital @autismcapital on x
    Based Gavin Andresen, who may or may not be Satoshi, telling Epstein to fuck off. [image]
  • @reidhoffman Reid Hoffman on x
    Yes, interacting with Epstein post-conviction is something I deeply regret. I promise to continue calling for the full release of the Epstein files - the victims deserve justice, and those responsible should be held accountable.
  • @palmerluckey Palmer Luckey on x
    Notice how Fat Jason's statement very carefully avoids the topic people are actually talking about, his ongoing relationship with and aid to a convicted child rapist and sex trafficker well into the 2010s.  Instead, he is still pretending it was all decades ago...
  • @generic_void @generic_void on x
    Any word from @growing_daniel about his Russian spy gf yet? Masha has been part of a tech espionage and blackmail operation similar to Epstein's at least as far back as 2018. Masha Drokova = DNE!!! VC/investors is a common tech espionage strategy. Please do your due diligence!
  • @nytpitchbot @nytpitchbot on bluesky
    By releasing the Epstein files with so little redaction, the DOJ has jeopardized the privacy and well-being of Epstein's real victims—the elderly billionaires who sent him embarrassing emails about treating STDs.
  • @timdickinson Tim Dickinson on bluesky
    Elon Musk, Jeffrey Epstein and Woody Allen on a Carribean island at Christmastime?  —  www.justice.gov/epstein/file...  [image]
  • @nytpitchbot @nytpitchbot on bluesky
    Whether it's a Hillary Clinton staffer asking John Podesta how to make risotto or Elon Musk asking Jeffrey Epstein where he could find a party featuring child sex slaves, there's plenty of embarrassing emails on both sides.
  • @milesklee Miles Klee on bluesky
    Elon Musk publicly slandering that cave diver as a “pedo guy” after he begged Jeffrey Epstein for island party invites is just incredible
  • @nycsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw on bluesky
    Xbox LIVE was willing to do in 2013 what the entire US establishment was not.  [image]
  • @rmac Ryan Mac on bluesky
    Interesting to watch Musk spin his newly released correspondence with Epstein.  —  What he is not addressing is that he very much requested to visit and party with Epstein, while SpaceX gave a tour to Epstein in 2013.  [image]
  • @rmac Ryan Mac on bluesky
    It's also worth noting here that Musk, in this message, isn't saying he has *never* visited Epstein's island, just that he “declined repeated invitations.”  It's a small, but important distinction.  —  Given what we we've seen in the emails, it's on him to clarify or provide comm…
  • @timdickinson Tim Dickinson on bluesky
    omg.  —  Musk to Epstein:  —  “The world needs more romance.”  [image]
  • @esqueer.net Alejandra Caraballo on bluesky
    Elon is still claiming this morning he never went to Epstein parties despite emails showing him begging to attend Epstein parties on his island.  [image]
  • r/MarchAgainstNazis r on reddit
    Elon begging Epstein to go to the island.
  • r/Political_Revolution r on reddit
    Reading the Epstein file released today is soul shattering. Please hold these awful men responsible. This is just one paragraph:
  • r/politics r on reddit
    Exposed Musk Now Insists Epstein Files Don't Matter |  The Tesla billionaire suddenly claimed the Epstein files are a “distraction.”
  • r/musked r on reddit
    Jeffrey Epstein to Elon Musk: Congratulations, now its time for fun!
  • r/Fauxmoi r on reddit
    Vivian Wilson speaks out after email exchanges between her father Elon Musk & Jeffrey Epstein release: “There was this boat ride from St Vincent to St Barth's …
  • r/millenials r on reddit
    Epstein Files: Elon Musk was on Epstein Island, Bill Gates got an STD, Epstein worked on behalf of a foreign state
  • r/Fauxmoi r on reddit
    Elon Musk exchanged emails with Jeffrey Epstein to plan a trip to Epstein island.
  • r/4chan r on reddit
    Anon Bashes Elon Musk For Inviting Himself to Epstein Parties Forcefully
  • r/siliconvalley r on reddit
    The Tech Elites in the Epstein Files
  • r/politics r on reddit
    Epstein Files Release Exposes Names of at Least 43 Victims, WSJ Review Finds
  • r/centrist r on reddit
    Epstein Files Release Exposes Names of at Least 43 Victims, WSJ Review Finds
  • @gilduran76 Gil Duran on x
    Epstein spoke fluent Thiel
  • @deljohnsonvc Del Johnson on x
    @gilduran76 The Epstein investment strategy (which the vast majority Silicon Valley venture capitalists follow), looks to be to purposefully collapse businesses, institutions and governments in order to buy at the lowest price/replace with network owned private sector alternative…
  • @fraufrohmann Christiane Frohmann on bluesky
    “[Epstein] believed he was months away from ushering in a new world order that would allow him to continue with his monstrous passion projects, like creating a super-race of children with his own DNA and building fascist nation states [...].”  —  www.garbageday.email/p/here-s- ho…
  • @birdyword Mike Bird on x
    Hoping that the Epstein emails finally kill the all-lowercase writing trend. Might start calling it Little Saint James style.
  • @powerbottomdad1 @powerbottomdad1 on x
    *Lex Fridman interviewing Jeffrey Epstein* Do you think there's still room in this world for love?
  • r/technology r on reddit
    Here's how Epstein broke the internet
  • r/LateStageCapitalism r on reddit
    “The Tech Elites in the Epstein Files: The Department of Justice has released more than 3 million documents and photos related to Jeffrey Epstein. …